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数詞

one-fourth (⁄₄)

1. One of four equal parts (1/4, ¼, 0.25).

   Synonym: one-quarter

   • 2018 September 30, Julia Carpenter and Jackie Wattles, “California has a new law: No more all-male boards”, in CNN Business‎:

     California state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson told The Wall Street Journal last month when the legislation passed that “one-fourth of California’s publicly traded companies still do not have a single woman on their board, despite numerous independent studies that show companies with women on their board are more profitable and productive.”

名詞

one-fourth (uncountable)

1. (Philippines) Ellipsis of one-fourth pad paper (“a one-fourth of standard size sheet of pad paper typically used by students for school quizzes”).

Further reading

• “one-fourth”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• "one-fourth" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
• “one-fourth”, in Wordnik.
• “one-fourth of, one fourth of”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.