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
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The ratio 4:6 reduced to lowest terms is 2:3.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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In some fashion, Margery's eyes had shorn it of verbiage, and reduced it, as it were, to its lowest terms.
From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Carryl, Guy Wetmore
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