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one tenth en · NUM
Meanings
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(alt-of, rare) rare spelling of one-tenth.
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A minuscule amount, in comparison to something or someone else.
You are a physical man, and in the best sense of being a man, you are not one tenth the man my brother was.
2013, John Dann MacDonald, A Purple Place for Dying, page 93:He wanted to be one tenth the man and the Spacer M'tai had been – or any of those great pioneers.
1998, CD Moulton, Robert Cole Todd/Space Services Collector's edition, page 3: