lowest terms
Americanplural noun
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In these cases, the exponent must be a fraction in lowest terms.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
For example, to expand we must first express the quotient 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
The reduction of the leaves in the clusters to lowest terms, gives the tree a starved look, and the eighteen or twenty rows of pale stomates on each leaf give the tree-top a ghostly pallor.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen
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