decade

décennie

Période de dix ans.

En anglais simple : A period of ten years.

• We lived there for a decade.
• The town has grown over the past two decades.
• What will change in the next decade?

Synonymes : ten years

Expressions courantes : a decade ago, over a decade, the next decade

décade

Intervalle entre deux valeurs dont l’une est dix fois plus grande que l’autre.

En anglais simple : An interval between two values where one is ten times the other.

• The frequency increased by one decade.
• Each decade on this scale represents a tenfold increase.
• The measured values span three decades, from one to one thousand.

Expressions courantes : one decade higher, a frequency decade, per decade increase