single-digit

adjective

: having a number or percentage that is 9 or less
a single-digit increase

Examples of single-digit in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web First and foremost, students should note that applying to eight schools, all with single-digit acceptance rates, does nothing to increase their odds at any single one of them. Christopher Rim, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024 So, paying the 33,000 production workers amounts to just a low single-digit percentage of an aircraft’s overall cost. Chris Isidore, CNN, 16 Sep. 2024 However, if all numbers are in the single-digit range of 1 through 9, they would be considered life path numbers. Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2024 Its machines, which cost up to $380 million each, are used by semiconductor manufacturers like Taiwan’s TSMC to etch unfathomably small patterns—measured in single-digit nano-meters—in pieces of silicon. Harry Booth, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for single-digit 

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“Single-digit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/single-digit. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.

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