lowest terms

American  

plural noun

Mathematics.

1. the form of a fraction after dividing the numerator and denominator by their greatest common divisor.

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Example Sentences

The ratio 4:6 reduced to lowest terms is 2:3.

From Literature

Members of Parliament from the Scottish National Party, which favors independence for Scotland, where the majority of voters opposed Brexit, described the new trade and security deal in the lowest terms.

From Washington Post

The first album in a decade from Steve Arrington, “Down to the Lowest Terms: The Soul Sessions” is the sound of an artist savoring the fruits of his own influence.

From New York Times

Collins clarified that he continued to make Gentlemen’s Cloaths and Ladies Riding-Habits, in the genteelest Taste and on the Lowest Terms.

From Slate

What is left amounts to the following,—the story reduced to its lowest terms, I take it.

From Project Gutenberg