Word Finder - decade

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A group, set, or series of ten , particularly:

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a decade of soldiers

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A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.

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The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.

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There are decades between 1.8 and 18, between 25 and 250 and between 0.03 and 0.003.

Then there can be a week, a month, a year, a decade, and a century without war.

It had only been two years, but it felt like a decade.

Jackson was thrilled at the thought of spending a decade or so at his favorite home, claiming North America to be fresh and new.

The following decade was the most active of the city's history as regards the ocean carrying trade.

You'd think we were still sitting in the same high school bleachers where we'd met a decade earlier.

The team spent over a decade making sure the rocket was ready to launch into space.

It took a decade or two for the new medium to be seen in light of itself, not just in terms of what it displaced.

Though it is crowded with incident, the main facts in the central decade of Bruce's life may be rapidly told.

With the incoming of the last decade of the century there seemed to be some justifiable hopes of the dawn of better times, but they were speedily doomed to disappointment.

But it was only during the last decade of his life that he ventured, with much hesitation, to present his ideas in a systematic and final form.

Over the past decade, Emma saw tremendous changes in her life.

In the past decade there has been an outbreak of superhero films.

From Mohl down to the eighth decade of the century the study of anatomy was entirely in the hands of a group of German.

Judah itself was next involved in an anti-Assyrian league (with Edom, Moab and Philistia), but apparently submitted in time; nevertheless a decade later (70r), after the change of dynasty in Assyria, it participated in a great but unsuccessful effort from Phoenicia to Philistia to shake off the yoke, and suffered disastrously.3 With the crushing blows upon Syria and Samaria the centre of interest moves southwards and the history is influenced by Assyria's rival Babylonia (under Marduk-baladan and his successors), by north Arabia and by Egypt.

It ended in 1201, and the last decade of Sancho's reign was a period of peaceful reform which earned for the king his popular name of o Povoador, the " maker of towns."

In the last decade of the 19th century the chief discoveries were of the bacillus of influenza (1892), of the bacillus of plague (1894) and of the bacillus of dysentery (1898).

The reunion was very exciting because it had been over a decade since they last saw each other.

The engineers want to make three-dimensional printers available to the hoi polloi in the next decade.

Our government has began to lean continually moretotalitarian during the past decade.

She has written about animal-related issues for more than a decade.

An older person might not be fond of current hip-hop, but enjoy rock music from a past decade, or they may like jazz or classical.

I don't even know the decade the guy died, much less who he was or who might be connected to him.

Finally, as Justin's statements as to the birth of Jesus in a cave and Mary's descent from David show in all probability his acquaintance with the book, it may with good grounds be assigned to the first decade of the 2nd century.

His first decade undoubtedly influenced Camoens, and together the two men fixed the Portuguese written tongue, the one by his prose, the other by his verse.

In 1901 the population was 188,022, showing an increase of 12% during the decade.

The population in 1901 was 1,060,528, showing an increase of 6% during the decade.

Quite distinct is the search for the germs which cause undesirable changes, or " diseases "; and great strides have been made in discovering the bacteria concerned in rendering milk " ropy," butter " oily " and " rancid," &c. Cheese in its numerous forms contains myriads of bacteria, and some of these are now known to be concerned in the various processes of ripening and other changes affecting the product, and although little is known as to the exact part played by any species, practical applications of the discoveries of the decade 1890-1900 have been made, e.g.

Much as the decade from 1880 to 1890 abounded with investigations on the reactions of bacteria to heat, so the following decade was remarkable for discoveries regarding the effects of other forms of radiant energy.

By 1876 the anthrax bacillus had been obtained in pure culture by Koch, and some other pathogenic bacteria had been observed in the tissues, but it was in the decade 1880-1890 that the most important discoveries were made in this field.

The last decade of the 19th century will stand out in the history of medical science as the period in which serum therapeutics and serum diagnosis had their birth.

The population in 1901 was 137,268, showing a decrease of 12% in the decade; the estimated gross revenue is L21,437; the tribute, £310.

Up to 1900 the most prosperous period (absolutely) in the agricultural development of the state was the last decade of the 19th century; the relative increase, however, was greater between 1880 and 1890.

Wheat, which in 1899 ranked second ($2,131,953), showed an increase of more than 400% in the decade, and the farm value of the crop of 1907, according to the Year-book of the United States Department of Agriculture, was $5,788,000; the value of the barley crop in 1899 ($312,730) also increased more than 400% over that of 1889, and in 1907 the farm value of the product, according to the same authority, was $1,265,000; the value of the oat crop in 1899 ($7 02, 955) showed an increase of more than 300% in the decade, and the value of the product in 1907, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, was $2,397,000.

In 1901 the population (on a reduced area) was 854,533, showing an increase of 11% in the decade.

The population of Michigan in 1880 was 1,636,937; in 1890 it was 2,093,889, an increase of 27.9% within the decade; in 1900 it was 2,420,982, a further increase of 15.6% and in 1910, according to the preliminary returns of the U.S. census, it was 2,810,173.

This was further increased during the Civil War, but after the close of that war it was rapidly diminished and finally was extinguished in the last decade of the century.

Pop. (1901) 45,901, showing a decrease of 21% in the decade.

The population in 1901 was 100,430, being a decrease of 17% during the decade; the estimated gross revenue is £25,412; and the tribute £600.

Various indications point to the period from 27 to 20 B.C., as that during which the first decade was written.

As to the first decade, it is generally agreed that in the first and second books, at any rate, he follows such older and simpler writers as Fabius Pictor and Calpurnius Piso (the only ones whom he there refers to by name), to whom, so far as the first book is concerned, Niebuhr (Lectures, p 33) would add the poet Ennius.

Passing to the third decade, we find ourselves at once confronted by a question which has been long and fully discussed - the relation between Livy and Polybius.

It is conceded on all hands that Livy in this decade makes con For Livy's debt to Valerius Antias, see A A Howard in Harvard Studies Classical Philology, xvii (1906), pp 161 sqq.

Consequently the theory that he used Polybius in the third decade requires us to assume that in this one instance he departed widely, and without sufficient reason, from his usual course of procedure.

The latter Livy certainly used directly for some parts of the decade.

In the latter books of the decade his chief authority is possibly Valerius Antias.

It is clear, on the contrary, that his circle of authorities for any one decade was a comparatively small one, that of these he selected one, and transcribed him with the necessary embellishments and other slight modifications until impelled by various reasons to drop him.

For the third decade our chief authority is the Codex Puteanus, an uncial MS. of the 5th century, now at Paris.

What remains of the fifth decade depends on the 5th century Laurishamensis or Vindobonensis from the monastery of Lorsch, edited at Basel in 1531.

Calcutta and Bombay have long contested the position of the premier city of India in population and trade; but during the decade 1891-1901 the prevalence of plague in Bombay gave a considerable advantage to Calcutta, which was comparatively free from that disease.

In the decade 18891899 the apple crop increased from 603,890 to 4,640,896 bushels.