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A tenth year or tenth anniversary.

Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person. A decent retreat in the mutability of human affairs. Burke. -- De"cent*ly, adv. -- De"cent*ness, n.

Contest for mastery; contention; strife. [R.] Arnway.

A measure of area, the tenth part of an are; ten square meters.

A weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois.

An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36º.

A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.

According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.]

To take the tenth part of; to tithe. Johnson.

A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment. Shak.

A French coin, the tenth part of a franc, equal to about two cents.

A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.

The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.

Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.

Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.

Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively. "Such decuman billows." Gauden. "The baffled decuman." Lowell.

etermine or clearly exhibit the boundaries of; to mark the limits of; as, to define the extent of a kingdom or country.

Having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval. Elements combine in definite proportions. Whewell.

A word used to define or limit the extent of the signification of a common noun, such as the definite article, and some pronouns.

Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree. The degree of excellence which proclaims genius, is different in different times and different places. Sir. J. Reynolds.