decad

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Noun

decad (plural decads)

  1. Archaic form of decade (period of ten years).
    • Tennyson
      Averill was a decad and a half his elder.
  2. Archaic form of decade. (group of ten)
    • Thomas Taylor, translating Aristotle in The Physics, or Physical Ausculation of Aristotle (1806) p. 167.
      Plato [] extends number as far as to the decad.

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