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decad

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/ˈdɛkæd/ English

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  1. A group, set, or series of ten , particularly:“a decade of soldiers”
  2. A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
  3. 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.”

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