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fourth

fourth

21 1.0
One of four equal parts of something
  • noun
  • /fɔrθ/
translation icon : cuarto
  • Well, as you see, the egg has been divided into fourths.
  • three fourths
  • one fourth
  • nearly one fourth

Examples

  • 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.

  • Now, the way I'm seeing it is like we give you a fourth of what we take.

  • 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.

  • The cake was cut into four equal pieces, so each slice was a fourth of the whole.

  • Only a fourth fourth of the respondents chose the new design as their favorite option.

Synonyms

quarter
vsfourth
1.3

One of four equal parts or periods of time

is restricted to the equal part sense, not time or game periods
one-quarter
vsfourth
29 1.0

One of four equal parts of a whole

is the base term without hyphenated numeric formatting
one-fourth
vsfourth
12 1.0

One of four equal parts, for example of a cake or pie

is the base term without the hyphenated word formatting
fourth part
vsfourth
1 1.0

One of four equal pieces of something

is the same idea but used as a single word form

Compounds

79 1.4

A national holiday in the United States that celebrates the Declaration of Independence of 1776

12 1.0

One of four equal parts, for example of a cake or pie

11 3.1

About the fourth and last year of high school or college

fourth dimension
  • Specialized
4 8.5

An extra dimension beyond length, width and height often used for time

fourth estate
  • Literature
4 5.7

News organizations like newspapers and TV that watch and report on people in power

fourth ventricle
  • Specialized
1 6.8

A small space in the brain that holds spinal fluid and lets it flow to the spinal cord

fourth power
  • Specialized
1 7.3

A number multiplied by itself four times

A military expedition from 1202 to 1204 that tried to take back Jerusalem but instead sacked Constantinople

1 9.9

A 1215 meeting of Catholic church leaders that set important church rules and beliefs

1 1.0

One of four equal pieces of something

Euclid's fourth axiom
  • Specialized
9.9

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

fourth cranial nerve
  • Specialized
7.0

A nerve that controls a top eye muscle and helps the eye look down

fourth deck
  • Specialized
7.4

A low floor on a large ship for storing goods or where crew sleep

A business or place of very low quality with bad service and dirty conditions

Fourth Reich
  • Offensive
9.9

A feared future German state that continues Nazi ideas

fourth stomach
  • Specialized
8.5

A last stomach compartment in animals like cows and sheep that digests food

Poor teaching in schools that does not prepare students

One of sixty-four equal parts of a whole

sixty-fourth note
  • Specialized
7.7

A very short musical sound equal to one sixty-fourth of a whole note

One of sixty-four equal parts of a whole

Surface Forms

fourth singular
fourths plural

Morphology

fourth = four (transparent) = four + th

The ordinal form is clearly derived from the cardinal number 'four' with the suffix '-th'.

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.