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A suitable amount of decimation (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tenth

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'decimation' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.

'a suitable amount' is the wordplay.
'a suitable' becomes 'tent' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'amount' becomes 'H' (H is an example).
'tent'+'h'='TENTH'

'of' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for tenth that I've seen before include "(Decimal?) fraction" , "0.1" , "Decimal part?" , "One behind ninth" , "Ordinal number" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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