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one-third
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[ noun ] (mathematics) one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
Examples "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement" Used in print (Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)Almost daily something is reported which feeds this Catholic hope in England : statistics of the increasing numbers of converts and Irish Catholic immigrants ; news of a Protestant minister in Leamington who has offered to allow a Catholic priest to preach from his pulpit ; a report that a Catholic nun had been requested to teach in a non-Catholic secondary_school during the sickness of one of its masters ; the startling statement in a respectable periodical that `` Catholics , if the present system is still in_operation , will constitute almost one-third of the House_of_Lords in the next generation '' ; a report that 200 Protestant clergymen and laity attended a votive Mass offered for Christian unity at a Catholic_church in Slough during the Church Unity Octave . (James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)The measured powder density of the **f used here was about **f , approximately one-third that of the crystal density ( **f ) . (J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)The velocity value used is also open_to some question ; if a substantial fraction of the dust is orbiting about the Earth , only about one_third the above_mentioned average velocity should be used in deriving the mass . Related terms |
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