a fraction (=a number less than 1) that is shown as a full stop followed by the number of tenths, hundredths etc. The numbers 0.5,0.175, and 0.661 are decimals. 小数〔如0.5,0.175,0.661 等〕
decimal places• Between equations, they marvelled that their tests would be scored to the whole point, instead of to five decimal places.• F Format Numbers are printed with a fixed number of decimal places.• In fact the sum is 0.99, the error being due to rounding to two decimal places.• The first two questions require an answer with two decimal places although there is only one in the question.
Origindecimal2
(1600-1700)Modern Latindecimalis, from Latindecem“ten”