decimal

Other forms of decimal

plural

decimals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about decimal

What does decimal mean?

decimal means "a proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in decimal?

decimal has 3 syllables: dec-i-mal. The stress falls on "dec". In IPA it is /ˈdɛsəməl/.

What is another word for decimal?

Close synonyms include decimal fraction, denary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is decimal a common word?

decimal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.