10 (number)

10 (ten) is the natural number following 9 and preceding 11.

In other fields

A collection of ten items (most often ten years) is called a decade.

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A decapod crustacean has ten limbs.

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To reduce something by one tenth is to decimate. (In ancient Rome, the killing of one in ten soldiers was the punishment for mutiny.)

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There are ten cents in a U.S. or Canadian dime, itself one tenth of a dollar. The word was shortened from decime.

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U.S. - Canadian

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The denomination of Canadian paper money bearing a portrait of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first Prime Minister.

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Sir John A. Macdonald - Prime Minister

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In chess, each side can promote all eight pawns to have a total of ten bishops, knights, or rooks.

Related Topics:
Chess - Pawn - Bishop - Knight - Rook

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People were traditionally tithed one tenth of their produce.

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It takes ten to make a minyan.

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With ten being the base of the decimal system, a scale of 1 to 10 is often used to rank things, as a smaller version of a 1-to-100 scale (as is used in percentages and wine-tasting).

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Blake Edwards' 1979 movie 10.

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Blake Edwards' - 1979 - 10

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Something that scores perfectly is "a perfect ten". A person who is attractive and physically flawless is often said to be "a ten", from the idea of ranking that person's appearance and sex-appeal on a 1-to-10 scale. E.g. In the movie 10 Bo Derek is supposedly a "10" on that scale.

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10 - Bo Derek

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Counting from one to ten before speaking is often done in order to cool one's temper.

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In Astrology, Capricorn is the 10th astrological sign of the Zodiac.

Related Topics:
Astrology - Capricorn - Astrological sign - Zodiac

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Driving a racing car at ten-tenths is driving as fast as possible, on the limit.

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Ten-codes are commonly used on emergency service radio systems.

Related Topics:
Ten-code - Emergency service - Radio

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Ten is:

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• Number of kingdoms in Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
• House number of Number 10 Downing Street
• ASCII and Unicode code point for line feed
• The number of Commandments from God to man in Mosaic law. (Exodus 20:2-17, Exodus 34:12-26, and Deuteronomy 5:6-21)
• There are said to be ten "Lost Tribes" of Israel.
• The designation of United States Interstate 10, a freeway that runs from California to Florida.
• The title of quite a few albums, including recordings by Pearl Jam and LL Cool J. See Ten (album).
• A Japanese comic: Ten (comic)
• "ten." is an abbreviation for tenuto, a musical direction.
• In rugby union the fly-half wears the 10 shirt.
• In MIDI, Channel 10 is reserved for unpitched percussion instruments.
• In the Rich Text Format specification, all language codes for regional variants of the Spanish language are congruent to 10 mod 256.
• Number of dots in a tetractys.
• In Mac OS X, the F10 key tiles all the windows of the current application and grays the windows of other applications.
• Historical years: 10 A.D., 10 B.C., or 1910