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A decade (from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekas) 'a group of ten') is a period of ten years. Decades may describe any ten-year period, such as those of a person's life, or refer to specific groupings of calendar years .
This Wikipedia page provides a comprehensive list of decades, centuries, and millennia.
cosmological decade: logarithmic (varies) 10 times the length of the previous cosmological decade, with CD 1 beginning either 10 seconds or 10 years after the Big Bang, depending on the definition. eon: 10 9 yr: Also refers to an indefinite period of time, otherwise is 1 000 000 000 years. kalpa: 4.32 × 10 9 yr: Used in Hindu mythology. About ...
One decade (symbol dec [1]) is a unit for measuring ratios on a logarithmic scale, with one decade corresponding to a ratio of 10 between two numbers. [2]
Save Through Each Decade of Your Life American women won the right to vote in 1920, a few months in advance of the national election that anointed Warren G. Harding president of the United States.
A collection of ten items (most often ten years) is called a decade. The ordinal adjective is decimal; the distributive adjective is denary. Increasing a quantity by one order of magnitude is most widely understood to mean multiplying the quantity by ten. To reduce something by one tenth is to decimate. (In ancient Rome, the killing of one in ...
A decade-old quote by Donald Trump, Jr. resurfaced in a New York Times column over the weekend. "In terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross ...
The U.S. housing market has been so hot for so long that it's easy to forget it can't stay that way forever. At some point, home prices will have to stabilize or head lower -- at least according to...