Fractions [noun]
Definition of Fractions:
part
Synonyms of Fractions:
Sentence/Example of Fractions:
The last fractions were lighter in color and apparently much purer than the first.
The poison, if precipitated at all by lead acetate, must have gone down in one of the preceding fractions.
The filtrate B (p. 20) from which gallic acid was precipitated by sulphuric acid in four fractions was saved to examine for sugar.
This remedy was that same oyster-shell which is to be prescribed "fractions of the sextillionth or decillionth degree."
Take a master petroleum chemist, infinitely skilled in the separation of crude oil into its fractions.
These are made in different patterns, having either decimal divisions or the vulgar fractions.
Napoleon knew it in war, when he looked to the boots and great-coats of his men; those were his fractions.
The change she made in fractions of these coins—actual quarters of dollars cut like pieces of pie.
They flourished most probably in the xiv first quarter of the twelfth century, as Thurkils treatise deals also with fractions.
She is all things to all men; she has whole truths, half truths, and quarter truths, if not still smaller fractions.