Phrase Hound found 33 phrases and 7 compound words that contain fractions. The most common are listed below. Open fractions in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 33
- field of fractionsThe smallest field in which a given ring can be embedded.
- common fractionsplural of common fraction: A fraction in the form of one integer divided by another, non-zero, integer.
- complex fractionsplural of complex fraction: Any fraction in which either or both of the numerator or denominator are themselves fractions.
- continued fractionsplural of continued fraction: A compound numerical expression consisting of an integer plus a fraction whose numerator is a positive integer and whose denominator is a continued fraction (an integer plus a fraction), and so on, with finite …
- decimal fractionsplural of decimal fraction: A proper or improper fraction the denominator of which is a power of ten and the decimal representation of which is a terminating decimal number.
- Egyptian fractionsplural of Egyptian fraction: A representation of a rational number as a sum of distinct unit fractions.
- partial fractionsplural of partial fraction: Any of several fractions to the sum of which a single fraction is equal.
- simple fractionsplural of simple fraction: A fraction in which both the numerator and the denominator consist of whole numbers.
- unit fractionsplural of unit fraction: A fraction whose numerator is 1 and whose denominator is a positive integer; for example, 1/2 or 1/7.
- mole fractionsplural of mole fraction: the ratio of the number of moles (not the animal) of one component of a mixture to the total number of moles
- vulgar fractionsplural of vulgar fraction: A fraction written in the form of one integer divided by another, non-zero, integer, e.g. ½.
- general continued fractionsplural of general continued fraction: A generalized continued fraction.
- ring of fractionsA ring whose elements are fractions whose numerators belong to a given commutative unital ring and whose denominators belong to a multiplicatively closed unital subset D of that given ring. Addition and multiplication of such fractions is …
- total ring of fractionsA ring of fractions of a given ring, such that the set of allowed denominators contains all of the non-zero divisors of the given ring.
- case fractionsplural of case fraction: A fraction typeset as one glyph. For example, ½ rather than 1/2.
- improper fractionsplural of improper fraction: A vulgar fraction of which the numerator has a greater magnitude than the denominator, such as 3/2.
- mass fractionsplural of mass fraction: The fractional proportion of a substance in a mixture, by weight/mass.
- mixed fractionsplural of mixed fraction: A number consisting of a whole number and a fraction, such as 11½.
- pizza fractionsAn approach to teaching fractions to children, visually representing the fractions as sectors of a circle, like slices of a pizza.
- proper fractionsplural of proper fraction: A vulgar fraction in which the magnitude of the numerator is less than or equal to that of the denominator, such as 2/3.
- representative fractionsplural of representative fraction: The scale of a map expressed as a fraction. For example, 1/63,360 or 1:63,360 indicates a scale of one inch to the mile.
- vanishing fractionsplural of vanishing fraction: A fraction which reduces to the form 0/0 for a particular value of the variable which enters it, usually in consequence of the existence of a common factor in both terms of the fraction, which factor becomes 0 …
- fields of fractionsplural of field of fractions: The smallest field in which a given ring can be embedded.
- finite continued fractionsplural of finite continued fraction: A continued fraction which terminates after a certain number of steps.
- generalized continued fractionsplural of generalized continued fraction: A continued fraction were the numerators and denominators can assume arbitrary values.
Compound words 7
- subfractionsplural of subfraction: The result of fractionating a fraction into smaller components
- multifractionsplural of multifraction: Involving multiple fractions.
- biofractionsplural of biofraction: A biological fraction
- diffractionsplural of diffraction: The bending of a wave around an obstacle.
- hypofractionsplural of hypofraction: An individual dose of hypofractionation
- microfractionsplural of microfraction: A fraction prepared using microfractionation
- oligofractionsplural of oligofraction: Anything composed of several fractions (in any of several contexts)