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fractional numbers

fractional numbers is the plural of fractional number.

Meaning of fractional number

Noun

fractional number (plural fractional numbers)

  1. A word that expresses one or more of a specific number of parts of a whole.
    • 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".
    Synonyms:
    fractional, fractional numeral, partitive numeral
  2. A fraction, such as 1/2 or 3/5.
    Synonyms:
    fraction

Questions about fractional numbers

What is fractional numbers the plural of?
Fractional numbers is the plural of fractional number.

Words near fractional numbers in the dictionary

  1. fractional freezing
  2. fractional freezings
  3. fractional ideal
  4. fractional ideals
  5. fractional number
  6. fractional numbers
  7. fractional reserve banking
  8. fractional rig
  9. fractional volume
  10. fractional volumes
  11. fractionalisation

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