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decimal point

/des-uh-muhl point, des-muhl/US // ˈdɛs ə məl ˌpɔɪnt, ˈdɛs məl //

小数点,小数,小數點,小数点后

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Arithmetic.

    • : a dot used to separate the whole part of a mixed number from its fractional part: for example, in the mixed number 32.89, the whole part is 32 whole units, the fractional part is 89 one-hundredths, and the dot that allows for the expression 32.89 is the decimal point: If you want to multiply 14.675 by 10, just move the decimal point one place to the right to get 146.75, the correct answer.

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  • Hebrank said District 9 was a “stepchild” created in 2011 and took issue with continuing to pull it apart just to move a “certain population” up a few decimal points.

  • He also said the discrepancies in the decimal points were caused by Skeate’s software.

  • The citizens of Stevens Point defeated fluoridation by a healthy margin.

  • Deep, situational, and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT!

  • To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

  • Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link  or infrared pointer at this point.

  • But the most important point I want to make is about what the press does now.

  • This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.

  • His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.

  • Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.

  • That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.

  • When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.