Fractions
['frækʃən]
Examples
- The indicator was composed of several wheels; on the circumference of each wheel were the numerals; and one wheel had fractions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So that if you want to measure the length of anything you use a rule or a yard stick, or some other scale which is graduated into fractions of the whole standard measure. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The most complicated problems of multiplication, division and fractions may be handled with ease on these machines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When the galvanometer shows the desired deflection, the needle, T, will indicate upon the dial, in decimal fractions of an inch, the exact distance through which the strip has been moved. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Four electrical pulsations were required to move the drum the distance between the fractions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The number of fractions bring it no nearer the last division, than the first idea it formed. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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