decimal

See also: décimal

Translingual

Signal flag for the decimal point

Alternative forms

• Decimal, DECIMAL

Etymology

Borrowed from English decimal, as in decimal point.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdeˈsiˈmal]

Noun

decimal

1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for decimal point.

Coordinate terms

• stop

ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codes

code	Alfa	Bravo	Charlie	Delta	Echo	Foxtrot	Golf	Hotel	India	Juliett	Kilo	Lima	Mike
	November	Oscar	Papa	Quebec	Romeo	Sierra	Tango	Uniform	Victor	Whiskey	Xray	Yankee	Zulu
	zero	one	two	three (tree)	four (fower)	five (fife)	six	seven	eight	nine (niner)	hundred	thousand	decimal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin, Medieval Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus, from decem (“ten”) + adjective suffix -alis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛs.ɪ.məɫ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛs.ɪ.məl/, /ˈdɛs.ə.məl/, /ˈdɛs.məl/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

decimal (not comparable)

1. (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal.

Synonyms

• base-ten, denary (rare)

Derived terms

• decimal reduction time
• decimal time

 

Translations

concerning numbers expressed in decimal or calculations using decimal

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: десети́чен (desetíčen)
• Catalan: decimal (ca)
• Czech: desítkový
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: decimaal (nl), decimale (nl), tientallig (nl), tientallige (nl)
• Esperanto: dekuma (eo), decimala
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: desimaalinen (fi)
• French: décimal (fr)
• Friulian: decimâl
• Galician: decimal (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: dezimal (de)
• Greek: δεκαδικός (el) (dekadikós)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: decimala (io)
• Irish: deachúlach, deachúil
• Italian: decimale (it)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: décimal
• Polish: dziesiętny (pl), dziesiątkowy (pl)
• Portuguese: decimal (pt)
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: zecimal (ro)
• Russian: десяти́чный (ru) (desjatíčnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: deicheach
• Spanish: decimal
• Swahili: -a miongo
• Swedish: decimal (sv)
• Tagalog: sampuin
• Welsh: degol

Noun

decimal (countable and uncountable, plural decimals)

1. (countable) A number expressed in the base-ten system, (particularly) a fractional numeral written in this system.

   What is ⁷⁄₂₃ as a decimal?

2. (informal, uncountable) The decimal system itself.
3. (informal) A decimal place.

   Pi has a value of 3.142, to three decimals.

4. (informal) A decimal point.
5. Alternative spelling of dismil

Synonyms

• (number): See decimal number
• (system): See decimal system
• (place): See decimal place

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “fractional number”): See fraction

Hyponyms

• binary-coded decimal

Related terms

• decim
• decimate

 

Translations

number system

• Bulgarian: десети́чна систе́ма f (desetíčna sistéma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十進制／十进制 (zh) (shíjìnzhì)

• Czech: desítková soustava f, dekadická soustava f
• Danish: decimal
• Dutch: decimaalstelsel n, tientallig talstelsel n
• Esperanto: dekuma sistemo
• Finnish: kymmenjärjestelmä (fi)
• French: décimal (fr) m, système décimal (fr) m
• Georgian: ათობითი სისტემა (atobiti sisṭema)
• German: Dezimalsystem (de) n, Zehnersystem (de) n
• Greek: δεκαδικό (el) n (dekadikó)
• Hindi: दशमलव (hi) m (daśamlav)
• Indonesian: desimal (id), perpuluhan (id)
• Italian: decimale (it)
• Japanese: 十進数 (じっしんすう, jisshinsū), 十進法 (ja) (じっしんぽう, jisshinpō)
• Korean: 십진법 (ko) (sipjinbeop)
• Malay: perpuluhan (ms), desimal
• Malayalam: ദശാംശ സമ്പ്രദായം (daśāṁśa sampradāyaṁ)
• Norwegian: desimal (no)
• Occitan: décimal
• Persian: دهدهی (fa) (dahdahi)
• Polish: system dziesiętny m, system dziesiątkowy m
• Portuguese: decimal (pt)
• Romanian: sistem zecimal (ro) n
• Russian: десяти́чная систе́ма f (desjatíčnaja sistéma)
• Swedish: decimalsystem (sv) n
• Tagalog: sampuan
• Turkish: ondalık sistem (tr)
• Welsh: nodiant degol m

number expressed in this system — see decimal number

decimal place — see decimal place

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Galician: ^{(please verify)} deachúil
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} decimalis

Verb

decimal (third-person singular simple present decimals, present participle decimaling or decimalling, simple past and past participle decimaled or decimalled)

1. To represent with numbers after a decimal point.
   • 1984, Robert William Dent, Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare, 1495-1616: An Index‎^[2]:

     Single- decimaled entries, often originating in Whiting (Wh) or Wilson (OW; see p. 23, fn.3), are from SPL. To save space, examples cited in SPL are normally not repeated (examples therefore begin with "Add:"). Double- decimaled entries, again often based on Wh or OW, are "new."

   • 2001, Richard J. Harris, A Primer of Multivariate Statistics‎^[3], page 54:

     simplified, substantively interpretable versions of the optimal (but many-decimaled) linear combinations of your original variables

   • 2015, Brad Knickerbocker, It’s Pi Day! Let’s have some pie., Christian Science Monitor:

     So naturally, 3/14 – the 14th of March – is celebrated as “Pi Day.” And since 3.14 is the beginning, not the end of Pi – it can be decimaled on out to infinity – and since the next two numbers are 1 and 5 voila! today’s date 3/14/15 is really special.

Derived terms

• binary decimal
• decimal arithmetic
• decimal candle
• decimal dozen
• decimaled
• decimal fraction
• decimalic
• decimalise
• decimalism
• decimalist
• decimalite
• decimalization
• decimalize
• decimally
• decimal without a zero
• dotted decimal
• hexatrigesimal
• heximal
• negadecimal
• nondecimal
• packed decimal
• pentadecimal
• postdecimal
• pre-decimal
• repeating decimal
• sedecimal
• septendecimal
• sexadecimal
• subdecimal
• tetradecimal
• tridecimal

 

See also

• base
• binary
• octal
• undecimal
• duodecimal
• hexadecimal
• vigesimal
• sexagesimal
• transdecimal

References

• decimal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• camelid, claimed, declaim, maliced, medical

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [də.siˈmal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [de.siˈmal]

Adjective

decimal m or f (masculine and feminine plural decimals)

1. (arithmetic, computing) decimal

Further reading

• “decimal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /dɛθiˈmal/ [d̪ɛ.θiˈmɑɫ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /dɛθiˈmal/ [d̪ɛ.θiˈmɑɫ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /dɛsiˈmal/ [d̪ɛ.siˈmɑɫ]

• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: de‧ci‧mal

Adjective

decimal m or f (plural decimais)

1. (arithmetic, computing) decimal

Further reading

• “decimal”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /det͡ʃiˈmal/

Adjective

decimal

1. (arithmetic, computing) decimal

Related terms

• décim

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin decimālis, from Latin decimus.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.siˈmaw/ [de.siˈmaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɛ.siˈmal/ [dɛ.siˈmaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɛ.siˈmal/ [dɛ.siˈmaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɛ.siˈma.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: de‧ci‧mal

Adjective

decimal m or f (plural decimais)

1. (arithmetic, computing) decimal (concerning numbers expressed in decimal or calculations using decimal)

Noun

decimal m (plural decimais)

1. (countable) decimal (number expressed in the decimal system)

Further reading

• “decimal” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French décimal.

Adjective

decimal m or n (feminine singular decimală, masculine plural decimali, feminine and neuter plural decimale)

1. Alternative form of zecimal

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	decimal		decimală		decimali	decimale
	definite	decimalul		decimala		decimalii	decimalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	decimal		decimale		decimali	decimale
	definite	decimalului		decimalei		decimalilor	decimalelor

Further reading

• decimal in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin decimālis, from Latin decimus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /deθiˈmal/ [d̪e.θiˈmal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /desiˈmal/ [d̪e.siˈmal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: de‧ci‧mal

Adjective

decimal m or f (masculine and feminine plural decimales)

1. decimal

Derived terms

• coma decimal
• número decimal
• punto decimal

 

Related terms

• décimo

 

Further reading

• “decimal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Swedish

Adjective

decimal

1. decimal (using ten digits 0-9)

Declension

Inflection of decimal
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	decimal	—	—
Neuter singular	decimalt	—	—
Plural	decimala	—	—
Masculine plural3	decimale	—	—
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	decimale	—	—
All	decimala	—	—
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Related terms

• decimalbråk
• decimalkomma
• decimalsystem

See also

• binär
• oktal
• hexadecimal

Noun

decimal c

1. a decimal place (digits expressing decimal fractions)

Declension

Declension of decimal

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	decimal	decimals
	definite	decimalen	decimalens
plural	indefinite	decimaler	decimalers
	definite	decimalerna	decimalernas