English

Numeral

one tenth (1/10)

1. The fraction that represents the real number 0.1; ⅒.
2. A minuscule amount, in comparison to something or someone else.
   • 1998, CD Moulton , Robert Cole Todd/Space Services Collector's edition, page 3:

     He wanted to be one tenth the man and the Spacer M'tai had been – or any of those great pioneers.

   • 2013, John Dann MacDonald, A Purple Place for Dying, page 93:

     You are a physical man, and in the best sense of being a man, you are not one tenth the man my brother was.