fourth
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1.0
- noun
- /fɔrθ/
- Well, as you see, the egg has been divided into fourths.
- three fourths
- one fourth
- nearly one fourth
Examples
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The second conclusion is that about one-fourth of Chilean households remain in poverty despite improvements in employment conditions.
Academic text (1997) -
Each trial type was one fourth of the 640 trials. Auditory stimuli.
Academic text (2013) -
Plus... ...a bonus of one fourth of all that.
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Now, the way I'm seeing it is like we give you a fourth of what we take.
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Its first college class graduated in 1888; one fourth of this small class of eight was women.
Academic text (2008) -
Indeed, about one-fourth of those reporting significant vision loss are 65 years of age and older.
Academic text (2012) -
By the fifth grade, about one-fourth of the students are enrolled in serious after-school academic courses.
Academic text (1993) -
So pour in One Cup of seedless raisins and a fourth a cup of broken walnuts.
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The cake was cut into four equal pieces, so each slice was a fourth of the whole.
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Only a fourth fourth of the respondents chose the new design as their favorite option.
Synonyms
∞
1.3
One of four equal parts or periods of time
29
1.0
One of four equal parts of a whole
12
1.0
One of four equal parts, for example of a cake or pie
1
1.0
One of four equal pieces of something
Compounds
79
1.4
A national holiday in the United States that celebrates the Declaration of Independence of 1776
- Specialized
4
8.5
An extra dimension beyond length, width and height often used for time
- Literature
4
5.7
News organizations like newspapers and TV that watch and report on people in power
- Specialized
1
6.8
A small space in the brain that holds spinal fluid and lets it flow to the spinal cord
1
9.6
A military expedition from 1202 to 1204 that tried to take back Jerusalem but instead sacked Constantinople
- Formal
1
9.9
A 1215 meeting of Catholic church leaders that set important church rules and beliefs
- Specialized
An axiom in Euclidean geometry that all right angles are equal
A meeting of church leaders in 869–870 that condemned Photius and helped cause the split between eastern and western churches
- Specialized
A nerve that controls a top eye muscle and helps the eye look down
A business or place of very low quality with bad service and dirty conditions
- Specialized
A last stomach compartment in animals like cows and sheep that digests food
- Specialized
A very short musical sound equal to one sixty-fourth of a whole note
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word fourth for a part comes from four and means 'one of four equal parts', which is the same idea as a quarter, so a fourth is one out of four equal pieces.