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Second :: Second (a.) In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8..

Cimar :: Cimar (n.) See Simar.

Repeater :: Repeater (n.) See Circulating decimal, under Decimal..

Decimation :: Decimation (n.) The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war..

Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (n.) A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by artificers in computing the superficial and solid contents of their work..

Dokimastic :: Dokimastic (a.) Docimastic.

Decimalize :: Decimalize (v. t.) To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency..

Period :: Period (n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals..

Separatrix :: Separatrix (n.) The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation..

Decimally :: Decimally (adv.) By tens; by means of decimals.

Radix :: Radix (n.) A number or quantity which is arbitrarily made the fundamental number of any system; a base. Thus, 10 is the radix, or base, of the common system of logarithms, and also of the decimal system of numeration..

Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (n.) A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch..

Sea Pike :: Sea pike () A large serranoid food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; -- called also robalo.

Prime :: Prime (a.) An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system; -- denoted by [']. See 2d Inch, n., 1..

Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (a.) Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves.

Decimate :: Decimate (v. t.) To take the tenth part of; to tithe.

Indecimable :: Indecimable (a.) Not decimable, or liable to be decimated; not liable to the payment of tithes..

Inch :: Inch (n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic..

Decimated :: Decimated (imp. & p. p.) of Decimat.

Metric :: Metric (a.) Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement..

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