tenth
• ordinal number 1 constituting number ten in a sequence; 10th. 2 (a tenth/one tenth) each of ten equal parts into which something is divided. 3 Music an interval spanning an octave and a third in the diatonic scale. — DERIVATIVES tenthly adverb.
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