Synonyms:
fraction
Meaning: a component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process
Synonyms:
fraction
Meaning: a small part or item forming a piece of a whole
Synonyms:
fraction
Meaning: the quotient of two rational numbers
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
divide, fraction
Meaning: perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?"
Usage examples
The labor needed to produce food for one hundred people is a fraction of what it was one hundred years ago.
I can price the Mounds to a fraction, and I know how they can be best disposed of; and likewise that they take no harm by standing where they do.
"It was like a terrible hurricane, and where a fraction of a second before there had been a perfect calm, I felt myself drawn into a vortex and I had to brace myself firmly.
These horsemen were a fraction of the watch: the groups were busy portions of the people, to whom a king is always a curious thing, the same as a rhinoceros, a crocodile, or a serpent.
He simply shot from his place, at such speed that the eye could not distinguish how he did it, and in the minutest fraction of a second was curled within the empty fishing-basket, which still lay on its side, half open.
With a final effort he threw himself from Numa's back and sought, by his quickness, to elude the frenzied beast for the fraction of an instant that would permit him to regain his feet and meet the animal again upon a more even footing.
But towards the poor or to those of the same limited resources as himself his attitude was one of watchful anxiety; he seemed to be haunted by a besetting fear lest some fraction of a shilling or franc, or whatever the prevailing coinage might be, should be diverted from his pocket or service into that of a hard-up companion.