Definitions for Fraction

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Fraction frac·tion

Spelling: [frak-shuh n]

IPA: /ˈfræk ʃən/

Fraction is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 397 anagrams from letters in Fraction (acfinort).

Definitions for Fraction

noun

1. Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
2. Chemistry. (in a volatile mixture) a component whose range of boiling point temperatures allows it to be separated from other components by fractionation.
3. a part as distinct from the whole of anything; portion or section:
4. a very small part or segment of anything; minute portion:
5. a very small amount; a little bit:
6. a piece broken off; fragment or bit.
7. the act of breaking.
8. Ecclesiastical. (in a Eucharistic service) the breaking of the Host.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to divide or break into fractions, sections, factions, etc.:

Origin of Fraction

1350-1400; Middle English fraccioun Late Latin frāctiōn- (stem of frāctiō) a breaking (in pieces), equivalent to Latin frāct(us) (past participle of frangere to Examples for Fraction

The decibel levels fell a fraction, but we were still in the heart of a crowd that believed in Brazil.

For what we have received from our ancestors is only a fraction of what we are, or may become.

One can only hope that their life together is even a fraction as fabulous as their wedding.

For a fraction of a second I had one glimpse of the animal through the brush.

The banded colors were there for a minute fraction of a second.

Is there not a certain glow of triumph in taming such a fraction?

And her heart for the fraction of a second seemed to stand still too.

He was, he said, amazed that “a fraction of a gram of sugar had rendered [him] unconscious.”

It has a third of the budget and a fraction of the maritime vessels.

He maintains that Israel, which made these a prime target, only managed to destroy a fraction of them during the war.