Decade

A Decade is a Time Duration Unit of a time interval of ten years.

• Example(s):
  • The 1970s
  • The 1980s
  • Two decades from 1975 to 1995.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • A Millennium.
  • A Century.
  • A Year.
• See: Time Duration Scale.

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References

2017a

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade
  • A decade is a period of ten years. The word is derived (via French and Latin) from the Ancient Greek: δεκάς ( /ðɛkˈɑːs/, transliteration=dekas), which means a group of ten. Other words for spans of years also come from Latin: biennium (2 years), triennium (3 years), quadrennium (4 years), lustrum (5 years), century (100 years), millennium (1000 years).

2017b

• (Dictinary.com, 2017) ⇒ decade. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved May 14, 2017 from Dictionary.com website http://www.dictionary.com/browse/decade
  • noun.
    • 1. a period of ten years: the three decades from 1776 to 1806.
    • 2. a period of ten years beginning with a year whose last digit is zero: the decade of the 1980s.
    • 3.a group, set, or series of ten

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