one-eighth
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- noun
- /wʌn eɪtθ/
:
un octavo
- In 1937, sharecropping families in the southern Cotton Belt had annual incomes of just $73 per person, a mere one-eighth of what the average family in the nation took in that year.
- one-eighth inch
- about one-eighth
- only one-eighth
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The wives of a deceased, polygynous man together inherit one-eighth of their husband's wealth, which is divided among them.
Academic text (1994) -
I've also heard that around one-eighth of the population goes hungry every day, too.
Blog text (16) -
By the 1974 coup, over one million Portuguese citizens were living outside the country, approximately one-eighth of the entire national population.
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One-third of Russians now expect that their lives will become somewhat better within a year, compared to just over one-eighth in July 1998.
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One-eighth of the city's population gets one-eighth of the money.
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Latinos now make up about one-eighth of the nation's population, one-third that of California, and nearly half that of Los Angeles.
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Today, Third World, or "Southern," NGOs alone may be reaching up to 500 million people, or one-eighth of the estimated 4.2 billion people in the Third World.
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Overall, the Amish operate one-eighth of the nation's dairy farms (Table II), albeit typically the smaller ones.
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Only one-eighth of them were able to develop and classify behaviorally stated instructional objectives.
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The cake was cut into eight pieces, so each person got one-eighth of it.
Synonyms
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One of eight equal parts of a cake or pie
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Etymology
One-eighth comes from the parts one and eighth, literally meaning 'one of eight equal parts'. Imagine cutting a cake or pizza into eight equal slices; a one-eighth piece is just one slice, so the word means 1/8.