denary

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denary - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Denary \Den"a*ry\, a. [L. denarius. See 2d Denier.]
     Containing ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens; as, the denary,
     or decimal, scale.
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  Denary \Den"a*ry\, n.
     1. The number ten; a division into ten.
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     2. A coin; the Anglicized form of denarius. --Udall.
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denary - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  denary
      adj 1: containing ten or ten parts [syn: tenfold, ten-fold,
             denary]
      2: numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten; "the decimal
         system" [syn: decimal, denary]