one-seventh
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- noun
- /wʌnˈsɛvənθ/
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un séptimo
- In the experiment, one-seventh of the samples were found to be contaminated.
- only one-seventh
- less than one-seventh
- about one-seventh
Examples
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The finest imported iron from Sweden was only $105 per ton, about one-seventh the cost of copper.
Academic text (2012) -
Together, they constitute one-seventh of the snow owl population left on the planet.
Fiction book (1994) -
One seventh of the population of the United States on welfare.
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Giving up one-seventh of your income was more than most would do.
Fiction book (1992) -
In 1950, children under the age of five composed just under one-seventh of the global population.
Academic text (1997) -
In the Northeast, Republicans now hold just 18 percent of U.S. House seats and only one-seventh of U.S. Senate seats.
Academic text (2009) -
The military budget of China, the country most often touted as the world's next superpower, is less than one-seventh of the U.S. defense budget.
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Its dairy operation features 16,000 milking cows, or one-seventh of the cows in Oregon.
Blog text (16) -
Immigrants without a high school diploma had an incarceration rate that was only one-seventh that of native-born high school dropouts.
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At the height of the British Empire in the nineteenth century, when one-seventh of the world's shipping was registered in Liverpool, the city really did become Western Europe's gateway to America.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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One of seven equal parts of a whole
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Morphology
Etymology
One-seventh is made from one and seventh, and it means 'one of seven equal parts'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine cutting a cake into seven equal slices and taking one slice, which is exactly what one-seventh means.