Teens vs. Tens: What's the Difference?
Teens and Tens Definitions
Teens
The numbers 10 through 19 or 13 through 19.
Tens
A technique used to relieve pain in an injured or diseased part of the body in which electrodes applied to the skin deliver intermittent stimulation to surface nerves, blocking the transmission of pain signals.
Teens
The 10th through 19th items, in a series or scale
The temperature was in the low teens.
Tens
Plural of ten
Teens
The 13th through 19th years of a person or animal's life
Students in their teens.
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Tens
An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.
Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.
Tens of thousands of voters
Teens
A teenager.
Tens
(poker slang) A pair of tens.
Teens
Misery; grief.
Tens
The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The teens, the oneties.
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Teens
Teenage.
Teens
Plural of teen
Teens
The numbers between thirteen and nineteen.
The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.
Teens
The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.
She is in her teens.
Teens
The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.
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Teens
The range between 10 and 19.
Although it was a scorching desert by day, temperatures could drop as low as the teens at night.
Teens
The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.
Teens
The time of life between the ages of 12 and 20
Teens
All the numbers that end in -teen
