decade

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɛkeɪd/|/dəˈkeɪd/|/ˈdɛkəd/    美 /ˈdɛkeɪd/|/dəˈkeɪd/|/ˈdekæɪd/|/ˈdɛkəd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A group, set, or series of ten , particularly
    — a decade of soldiers
  2. A group, set, or series of ten; A period of ten years , particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9.
    — The 1960s was a turbulent decade.
  3. A group, set, or series of ten; A period of ten days, particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars.
    — The year was divided up into twelve months renamed after the seasons [...]; each month comprised three ‘decades’ of ten days – with the décadi replacing Sundays as a day of rest; and each day was reconsecrated to a natural product or farming tool or technique.
  4. A group, set, or series of ten; A work in ten parts or books, particularly such divisions of Livy's History of Rome. archaic,literary
  5. A group, set, or series of ten; A series of prayers counted on a rosary, typically consisting of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys, and concluding with a Glory Be and sometimes the Fatima Prayer.
  6. A group, set, or series of ten; Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns.
  7. A group, set, or series of ten; A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.
  8. A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
  9. The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.
    — There are decades between 1.8 and 18, between 25 and 250 and between 0.03 and 0.003.

词形变化

decades plural decad alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
cosmological decade decade box decade counter decadeful decade long decade-long decadelong decades-long decadeslong decadewise decadist dollar decade light decade lost decade multidecade quintade semidecade
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词源

From Middle English decade, from Old French decade, from Late Latin decādem (“(set of) ten”), from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás), from δέκα (déka, “ten”). In reference to a span of ten years, originally a clipping of the phrase decade of years. By surface analysis, dec- + -ade. Doublet of decad and dekad.
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