double digits

Beyond single figures

Double digits refers to any number from 10 through 99—numbers requiring two digits to write.

The phrase often marks a threshold or milestone: She finally scored in double digits, Inflation hit double digits.

A child reaching double digits turns ten.

In sports and statistics, double digits suggests a noteworthy quantity: He averaged double digits in rebounds.

Related

fifteen · birthday · thirteen · seventeen · nineteen · score · sixteen · percentage · inflation rate · growth rate · forty · fourteen · figure · threshold · increase · jersey number · age · adolescence

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Opposites
numerical magnitude

double digitsless than ten

Quantity below ten

triple digits · hundreds · zero

Family

double, duplicate, doubled, doubling, duplicity, doubles, duplicated, digits, redouble

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Top 50,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G