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7/8 & 9/10 & cent
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sept | Latin- “Seven” |
| September | (n) The ninth month of the year, formerly the seventh. |
| Septet | (n) A group of seven people playing music or singing together. |
| Septenate | (adj) Referring to being divided into seven portions or parts. |
| Septennial | (adj) Recurring every seven years. |
| Septarch | (n) One of seven rulers. |
| Septenary | (adj) Pertaining to or relating to the number seven, or forming a group of seven; as in the number of days in a week. |
| Septuagenarian | (n) A person who is in his/her seventies. |
| Oct | Greek- “Eight” |
| October | (n) The tenth month of the year, formerly the eighth. |
| Octagon | (n) A figure with eight straight sides and eight angles. |
| Octave | (n) A group of eight, such as eight lines or eight musical notes. |
| Octane | (n) A colorless flammable substance (C8H18) found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent. It has 8 carbon atoms. |
| Octad | (n) A group of eight things |
| Octopus | (n) A cephalopod mollusk with eight sucker-bearing arms, a soft saclike body, strong beaklike jaws, and no internal shell. |
| Non, Nov | Latin- “Nine” |
| November | (n) The eleventh month of the year, formerly the ninth. |
| Novennial | (adj) Recurring every nine years. |
| Nonary | (adj) Relating to or based on the number nine. |
| Nonagon | (n) A figure with nine straight sides and nine angles. |
| Nonose | (n) A sugar with nine carbon atoms. |
| Nonan | (adj) occurring on the ninth day. |
| Deca, Deci | Latin- “Ten” |
| Decade | (n) A period of ten years. |
| Decathlon | (n) An athletic event taking place over two days, in which each competitor takes part in the same prescribed ten events (100-meter dash, long javelin, and 1,500-meter run). |
| Decimal | (adj) Relating to or denoting a system of numbers and arithmetic based on the number ten, tenth parts, and powers of ten. |
| Decimate | (v) To kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of; historical- to kill one in every ten of a group of soldiers or others as a punishment for the whole group. |
| Decameter | (n) A metric unit of length, equal to 10 meters. |
| Decagon | (n) A plane figure with ten straight sides and angles. |
| Decibel | (n) A unit used to measure the intensity of a sound or the power level of an electrical signal by comparing it with a given level on a logarithmic scale. |
| Cent | Latin- “Hundred” |
| Century | (n) A period of one hundred years. |
| Centigrade | (adj) Relating to the temperature scale in which the boiling point of water is at 100 degrees and the freezing point of water is at 0 degrees. |
| Centurion | (n) An officer in the ancient Roman army, which originally had one hundred men. |
| Centimeter | (n) A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter. |
| Percent | (n) One part in every hundred. |
| Centenary | (n) The hundredth anniversary of a significant event; a centennial. |
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