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For example, "five tenths," is typically a measurement or tolerance of five ten-thousandths of an inch, and written as 0.0005 inches. "Three tenths," as another example, is written as 0.0003 inches [9] Machining "to within a few tenths" is often considered very accurate, and at or near the extreme limit of tolerance capability in most contexts.
The most common type of rounding is to round to an integer; or, more generally, to an integer multiple of some increment – such as rounding to whole tenths of seconds, hundredths of a dollar, to whole multiples of 1/2 or 1/8 inch, to whole dozens or thousands, etc.
A fire hydrant marked as 3-inch. The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement.It is equal to 1 / 36 yard or 1 / 12 of a foot.
Savannah, Georgia, picked up just over an inch of snow. It was the most snow in either city since the pre-Christmas 1989 cold outbreak. ... Tallahassee, picked up a tenth of an inch of snow and ...
One tenth, 1 ⁄ 10, or 0.1, a fraction, one part of a unit divided equally into ten parts. the SI prefix deci-tithe, a one-tenth part of something; 1/10 of any unit of measurement, in particular: One ten-thousandth of an inch
The last time Los Angeles recorded rainfall over a tenth of an inch — the threshold that officials typically consider helpful for thirsty plants and the reduction of wildfire risk — was May 5 ...
Ice accretion levels under a tenth of an inch are generally considered to be a nuisance, while amounts above a quarter of an inch can cause damage to branches and power lines.
One-tenth inch; distance between pins in DIP (dual-inline-package) electronic components 5.70 mm Diameter of the projectile in 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition 10 −2: 1 centimeter 20 mm Approximate width of an adult human finger: 54 mm × 86 mm Dimensions of a credit card, according to the ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1 standard 73–75 mm