fraction

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 frăkʹshən

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.
    — With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
  2. A ratio of two numbers (numerator and denominator), usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar called the vinculum or, alternatively, in sequence on the same line and separated by a solidus (diagonal bar).
    — Gasoline prices show the mill as a fraction, for example $3.59+⁹⁄₁₀.
  3. A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation.
  4. In a eucharistic service, the breaking of the host.
    — […] The bread, when it is consecrated and made sacramental, is the body of our Lord; and the fraction and distribution of it is the communication of that body, which died for us upon the cross.
  5. A small amount.
    — I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
  6. The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence. archaic
    — Neither can the natural body of Christ be subject to any fraction or breaking.
动词 v.
  1. To divide or break into fractions. transitive
  2. To fractionate. transitive

词形变化

fractions plural fractions present,singular,third-person fractioning participle,present fractioned participle,past fractioned past

词汇关系

近义词
fraction
上位词
number
衍生词
abfraction biofraction case fraction common fraction complex fraction continued fraction continued-fraction decimal fraction dyadic fraction Egyptian fraction ejection fraction Euler's continued fraction formula field of fractions finite continued fraction fractile fractionable fractional fractional calculus fractional distillation fractional ideal fractionalism fractionalist fractionality fractionalization fractionalize fractionalizing fractionally fractional reserve banking fractionary fractionate fractionation fractionator fraction bar fractionise fractionization fractionize fractionner fraction slash general continued fraction generalized continued fraction glycofraction hypofraction improper fraction infinite continued fraction interfraction intrafraction mass fraction microfraction mixed fraction mole fraction oligofraction ordinal fraction partial fraction partial fraction decomposition partial fraction expansion periodic continued fraction proper fraction regular continued fraction representative fraction simple continued fraction simple fraction subfraction top-heavy fraction total ring of fractions unit fraction vanishing fraction vulgar fraction
相关词
fractal fractious fracture fragile fragileness fragility fragment frail frailness frailty frangibility frangible frangibleness infract infraction infrangibility infrangible infrangibleness infringe infringeable infringee infringement infringer infringest noninfringement refract refraction refractive refractory refrangible refringent division rational number quotient ratio rate portion part Appendix:Numbers Appendix:Unicode/Number Forms Appendix:English numerals § Fractions Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 100a. Fraction :Category:English fractional numbers

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Middle English fraccioun
English fraction
From Middle English fraccioun (“a breaking”), from Anglo-Norman, Old French fraccion, from Medieval Latin fractio (“a fragment, portion”), from earlier Latin fractio (“a breaking, a breaking into pieces”), from fractus, past participle of frangere (“to break”) (whence English frangible), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (English break). Doublet of frazione.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Middle English fraccioun
English fraction
From Middle English fraccioun (“a breaking”), from Anglo-Norman, Old French fraccion, from Medieval Latin fractio (“a fragment, portion”), from earlier Latin fractio (“a breaking, a breaking into pieces”), from fractus, past participle of frangere (“to break”) (whence English frangible), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (English break). Doublet of frazione.
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