decimal: [17] Decimal comes from decimālis, a medieval Latin coinage based on decimus ‘tenth’, the ordinal derivative of Latin decem ‘ten’ (a relative of English ten). Other descendants of decem include December, decimate, dime, and the prefix deci-, while its Greek cousin déka has given us decade [15] and the prefix deca-. => decade, december, decimate, dime, ten, tithe
decimal (adj.)
c. 1600, from Medeival Latin decimalis "of tithes or tenths," from Latin decimus "tenth," from decem "ten" (see ten). Applied to Arabic notation before modern sense of "decimal fractions" emerged. As a noun from 1640s.
雙語例句
1. In 1971, the 1p and 2p decimal coins were introduced in Britain.
英國于1971年開始使用十進制的1便士和2便士硬幣。
來自柯林斯例句
2. A pocket calculator only works to eight decimal places.
袖珍計算器只能計算到小數點后8位數。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The decimal 0.61 stands for 61 hundredths.
小數0.61代表61%。
來自《權威詞典》
4. The figure is accurate to two decimal places .
這個數精確到小數點后兩位。
來自《權威詞典》
5. Britain converted to decimal currency on February 15 th, 1971.