fraction
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
arithmetic
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English fraccioun
English fraction
From Middle English fraccioun (“a breaking”), from Anglo-Norman, Old French fraccion, from Medieval Latin fractio (“a fragment, portion”), from earlier Latin fractio (“a breaking, a breaking into pieces”), from fractus, past participle of frangere (“to break”) (whence English frangible), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (English break). Doublet of frazione.
Inflected forms:
form: fractions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fractions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fractioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fractioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fractioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.
pos: noun
examples: With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
gloss: A ratio of two numbers (numerator and denominator), usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar called the vinculum or, alternatively, in sequence on the same line and separated by a solidus (diagonal bar).
pos: noun
examples: Gasoline prices show the mill as a fraction, for example $3.59+⁹⁄₁₀.
gloss: A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation.
pos: noun
gloss: In a eucharistic service, the breaking of the host.
pos: noun
examples: […] The bread, when it is consecrated and made sacramental, is the body of our Lord; and the fraction and distribution of it is the communication of that body, which died for us upon the cross.
gloss: A small amount.
pos: noun
examples: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
After kick-off was delayed because of crowd congestion, Torquay went closest to scoring in a cagey opening 30 minutes, when Danny Stevens saw a fierce shot from the edge of the area swerve a fraction wide.
gloss: The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Neither can the natural body of Christ be subject to any fraction or breaking.
gloss: To divide or break into fractions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fractionate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: fraction
Related words: fractal
fractious
fracture
fragile
fragileness
fragility
fragment
frail
frailness
frailty
frangibility
frangible
frangibleness
infract
infraction
infrangibility
infrangible
infrangibleness
infringe
infringeable
infringee
infringement
infringer
infringest
noninfringement
refract
refraction
refractive
refractory
refrangible
refringent
division
rational number
quotient
ratio
rate
portion
part
Appendix:Numbers
Appendix:Unicode/Number Forms
Appendix:English numerals § Fractions
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 100a. Fraction
:Category:English fractional numbers
Derived words: abfraction
biofraction
case fraction
common fraction
complex fraction
continued fraction
continued-fraction
decimal fraction
dyadic fraction
Egyptian fraction
ejection fraction
Euler's continued fraction formula
field of fractions
finite continued fraction
fractile
fractionable
fractional
fractional calculus
fractional distillation
fractional ideal
fractionalism
fractionalist
fractionality
fractionalization
fractionalize
fractionalizing
fractionally
fractional reserve banking
fractionary
fractionate
fractionation
fractionator
fraction bar
fractionise
fractionization
fractionize
fractionner
fraction slash
general continued fraction
generalized continued fraction
glycofraction
hypofraction
improper fraction
infinite continued fraction
interfraction
intrafraction
mass fraction
microfraction
mixed fraction
mole fraction
oligofraction
ordinal fraction
partial fraction
partial fraction decomposition
partial fraction expansion
periodic continued fraction
proper fraction
regular continued fraction
representative fraction
simple continued fraction
simple fraction
subfraction
top-heavy fraction
total ring of fractions
unit fraction
vanishing fraction
vulgar fraction
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