vulgar fraction
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of vulgar fraction
First recorded in 1665–75
Example Sentences
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Nūmerā′tion, act of numbering: the art of reading numbers, and expressing their values; Nū′merātor, one who numbers: the upper number of a vulgar fraction, which expresses the number of fractional parts taken.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
You've no right to call me a vulgar fraction.
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
"That reminds me that a man is said to be merely a vulgar fraction till he is married, when he is redeemed into a whole number."
From The Earth Trembled by Edward Payson Roe
My grandmother sent me to school, but I looked at the master, and saw that he was a smooth, round ferule—or an improper noun—or a vulgar fraction, and refused to obey him.
From The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Go—look at each transaction, Wars, revels, loves—do these bring men more ease Than the mere plodding through each "vulgar fraction?"
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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