Decennial [adjective]

The volumes of the decennial censuses contain the statistical records of the nation's growth and development.

The figures fluctuate more severely than these decennial averages show, and the progress has not been one of uniform increase.

In 1851 Lament, a Scotchman at Munich, found a decennial period in the daily range of magnetic declination.

Australian and Canadian observations both showed the decennial period in all three elements.

At first the settlement was called decennial, but in 1793 it was declared permanent for ever.

In 70 years the decennial rate of increase declined from about 30 per cent to 22 per cent.

That is the date, not 'centennial,' but 'decennial,' which ought to have been celebrated in 1889 by the Third French Republic.

The deaths from all causes in the decennial period covered by the Census of 1851 were 985,366.

See the Decennial Publications of the University (since 1903), especially vol.

The decennial period was at hand when revision of the treaty of Tientsin might be claimed.