fractionとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: frăkʹshən, IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæk.ʃən/
  • 韻: -ækʃən

名詞

fraction (複数形 fractions)

1. A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:

     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. (arithmetic) A ratio of two numbers, the numerator and the denominator, usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar.
3. (chemistry) A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation.
4. In a eucharistic service, the breaking of the host.
5. A small amount.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     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.

   • 2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0-1 Crawley Town”, in BBC:

     After kick-off was delayed because of crowd congestion, Torquay went closest to scoring in a cagey opening 30 minutes, when Danny Stevens saw a fierce shot from the edge of the area swerve a fraction wide.

6. The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.
   • (Can we date this quote by Foxe かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Neither can the natural body of Christ be subject to any fraction or breaking up.

引用

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:fraction.

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動詞

fraction (三人称単数 現在形 fractions, 現在分詞 fractioning, 過去形および過去分詞形 fractioned)

1. To divide or break into fractions.

参照

• “fraction” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “fraction” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• "fraction" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

アナグラム

• Croftian, factor in, infocrat