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名詞

three-fourths (uncountable)

1. Three of four equal parts (3/4, ¾, 0.75).

   three-fourths of a ton is too much

   a three-fourths majority

   Synonym: three-quarters

使用する際の注意点

• In the British corpus, three-quarters is much more common than three-fourths; in the American corpus, three-quarters is also much more common after year 2000.

参考

• Thesaurus:fraction
• Appendix:English numerals

参照

Further reading

• “three-fourths”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• "three-fourths" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
• “three-fourths”, in Wordnik.