one tenth

num, noun — 3 senses

numalso spelled one-tenth

Rare rare spelling of one-tenth.

A minuscule amount, in comparison to something or someone else.

He wanted to be one tenth the man and the Spacer M'tai had been – or any of those great pioneers.1998, CD Moulton, Robert Cole Todd/Space Services Collector's edition, page 3:
You are a physical man, and in the best sense of being a man, you are not one tenth the man my brother was.2013, John Dann MacDonald, A Purple Place for Dying, page 93:

one-tenth

noun

One of ten equal parts (1/10, ⅒, 0.1).

As with most other railways, freight revenue is the mainstay of the balance sheet. In Canada, passenger revenue is only about one-tenth that of freight.1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 555:

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