fractional number

Noun

Meaning

(grammar) A word that expresses one or more of a specific number of parts of a whole.
Synonyms: fractional, fractional numeral, partitive numeral
In English, most ordinal numbers double as fractional numbers — "third", "fourth", and so on — with the exception of "second", whose corresponding fractional number is "half".

(arithmetic) A fraction, such as






1
2





{\displaystyle \textstyle {\frac {1}{2}}}

or






3
5





{\displaystyle \textstyle {\frac {3}{5}}}

.
Synonym: fraction

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