Fraction

['frækʃ(ə)n] or ['frækʃən]

解释:

(noun.) a small part or item forming a piece of a whole.

(noun.) the quotient of two rational numbers.

(noun.) a component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process.

贾尔斯录入--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.

(n.) A portion; a fragment.

(n.) One or more aliquot parts of a unit or whole number; an expression for a definite portion of a unit or magnitude.

(v. t.) 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.

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同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Part, portion, fragment, section, piece, bit, scrap.[2]. (Arith.) Part of a unit.

珍妮特手打

解释:

n. a fragment or very small piece: (arith.) any part of a unit: a technical term to indicate the breaking of the bread in the sacrifice of the Eucharist.—v.t. Fract (Shak.) to break to violate.—adjs. Fract′ed (her.) having a part displaced as if broken; Frac′tional belonging to or containing a fraction or fractions; Frac′tionary fractional: unimportant.—v.t. Frac′tionate to separate the elements of a mixture by distillation or otherwise.—n. Fractionā′tion.—v.t. Frac′tionise to break up into fractions.—n. Frac′tionlet a small fraction.—adj. Frac′tious ready to quarrel: cross.—adv. Frac′tiously.—ns. Frac′tiousness; Frac′ture the breaking of any hard body: the breach or part broken: the breaking of a bone.—v.t. to break through.—Compound Comminuted Complicated fracture (see the respective adjectives); Greenstick fracture a fracture where the bone is partly broken partly bent occurring in the limbs of children; Simple fracture a fracture when the bone only is divided.

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