one-sixth
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- noun
- /wʌn sɪksθ/
:
un sexto
- If you divide the cake into six equal pieces, each piece is one-sixth of the whole.
- only one-sixth
- about one-sixth
- less than one-sixth
Examples
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All of domestic discretionary spending makes up about one-sixth of the budget.
Academic text (1995) -
Profile Type 2 accounts for approximately one-sixth of all learners (prevalence = 16.6%).
Academic text (1994) -
Almost everyone in the sample had been arrested, placed in jail, and over one sixth had been to prison.
Academic text (2009) -
The entire process reduces waste to one-sixth of its former volume.
Academic text (2000) -
Each section of fence was eleven feet long, or exactly one-sixth of a "chain."
Fiction book (1990) -
Each list is presented to one-sixth of the population sampled.
Academic text (2009) -
Tidal sites already identified around the U.K. coast could provide up to one-sixth of our electricity needs.
Academic text (2003) -
The material reached equilibrium at about one-sixth of the original thickness in about 100 hours.
Academic text (1990) -
Post-recession notice requirements have been enacted in approximately one-sixth of the states.
Academic text (2017) -
Profile Type 5 accounts for slightly more than one-sixth of the child population (prevalence = 17.6%).
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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One of six equal parts of something
How Much
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word one-sixth is just one plus sixth, where sixth means 'one of six equal parts'. So one-sixth is one of those parts — like one slice when you cut a cake into six equal slices.