lowest terms

plural noun

Mathematics.

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

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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