fraction
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Noun (3)fractions
- a component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional processType of chemical, chemical substance
- a small part or item forming a piece of a wholeType of part, portion
- the quotient of two rational numbersType of rational number, rationalKinds mantissa, proper fraction, improper fraction, continued fraction, complex fraction, common fraction
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Translations
Noun fraction, part of a whole (maths)
- Spanish
- fracción
- French
- fraction
- German
- Bruch
- Italian
- frazione
- Portuguese
- fração
- Turkish
- kesir
- Russian
- дробь drobʹ
- Arabic
- كَسْر kasr
- Chinese
- 分数 fēnshù
- Japanese
- 分数 bunsū
26 more languages
- Dutch
- breuk
- Polish
- ułamek
- Swedish
- bråk
- Greek
- κλάσμα klásma
- Korean
- 분수 bunsu
- Indonesian
- pecahan
- Vietnamese
- phân số
- Hungarian
- törtszám
- Portuguese (PT)
- fracção
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 分數 fēnshù
- Albanian
- thyesë
- Catalan
- fracció
- Czech
- zlomek
- Danish
- brøk
- Estonian
- murd
- Finnish
- murtoluku
- Hebrew
- שבר shéver
- Icelandic
- brot
- Latvian
- daļskaitlis
- Norwegian
- brøk
- Romanian
- fracție
- Scottish Gaelic
- bloigh
- Serbo-Croatian
- razlomak
- Slovak
- zlomok
- Slovenian
- ulomek
- Welsh
- ffracsiwn
Noun part of a whole
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. fraction, L. fractio a breaking, fr. frangere, fractum, to break. See Break.
1. The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence. obsolete
Neither can the natural body of Christ be subject to any fraction or breaking up.— or Fox, John Foxe
2. A portion; a fragment.
Some niggard fractions of an hour.— Alfred Tennyson
3. Arith. or Alg. One or more aliquot parts of a unit or whole number; an expression for a definite portion of a unit or magnitude.
Common fraction, or Vulgar fraction, a fraction in which the number of equal parts into which the integer is supposed to be divided is indicated by figures or letters, called the denominator, written below a line, over which is the numerator, indicating the number of these parts included in the fraction; as ½, one half, 2⁄5, two fifths. — Complex fraction, a fraction having a fraction or mixed number in the numerator or denominator, or in both. Davies & Peck. — Compound fraction, a fraction of a fraction; two or more fractions connected by of. — Continued fraction, Decimal fraction, Partial fraction, etc. See under Continued, Decimal, Partial, etc. — Improper fraction, a fraction in which the numerator is greater than the denominator. — Proper fraction, a fraction in which the numerator is less than the denominator.
Chemistry To separate by means of, or to subject to, fractional distillation or crystallization; to fractionate; — frequently used with out; as, to fraction out a certain grade of oil from pretroleum.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54