decimals

plural of decimal

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Noun
  • In 2007, McKeller released her first book, Math Doesn’t Suck, demystifying concepts like fractions, decimals, percents, and algebra for girls in middle school.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Those fractions may look small, but ozone chemistry is anything but linear.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The girl's mother found her hours later, with the A/C automatically turned off, and outside temperatures in the triple digits.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 5 Nov. 2025
  • For election offices, the ability to use only the last four digits of a Social Security number may speed routine audits and batch checks of voter rolls, reducing the number of incomplete matches that previously required additional data.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
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“Decimals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decimals. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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