lowest terms
Americanplural noun
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For example, to expand we must first express the quotient in lowest terms.
From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015
In these cases, the exponent must be a fraction in lowest terms.
From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015
Reduce any average newspaper music critique to its lowest terms, and you will arrive at something like this: 'The Symphar-monic Orchestra gave a concert last night in Carnegie Hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ratio 4:6 reduced to lowest terms is 2:3.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Having disposed of Christianity, orthodox and otherwise, and having reduced the morality of "enlightened selfishness" to its lowest terms, Butler turned in the same spirit to the destruction of orthodox Victorian science.
From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan
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