Fractional
adjective
Something small or less than the whole.
He owns a fractional share of the company.
Often appears as...
- fractional share
- fractional difference
adjective
Related to fractions in math.
Fractional numbers are used to express quantities less than one.
Often appears as...
- fractional number
- fractional expression
adjective
Related to the process of fractionation.
Fractional distillation is used to separate the components of a mixture.
Often appears as...
- fractional distillation
- fractional freezing
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Technical
adjective
Something small or less than the whole.
He owns a fractional share of the company.
Often appears as...
- fractional share
- fractional difference
adjective
Related to fractions in math.
Fractional numbers are used to express quantities less than one.
Often appears as...
- fractional number
- fractional expression
adjective
Related to the process of fractionation.
Fractional distillation is used to separate the components of a mixture.
Often appears as...
- fractional distillation
- fractional freezing
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes 'fractional' describes something insignificant, emphasizing its smallness in a non-literal, metaphorical way.
Her interest in the topic was only fractional.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Literal
'Fractional' can indicate a very small part of something without referring to an exact mathematical fraction.
They could only see a fractional glimmer of light in the dark room.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasis on Smallness
Using 'fractional' often emphasizes how surprisingly small something is.
There was only a fractional difference in their ages.
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actually negotiate with people this one person offered me three cents and I got him up to three and a half I even knew at a seven-year old age that I could actually get a fractional percent of a cent and people would pay that because it multiplied up at 7 years old I figured out I got three and a half cents for a thousand coat hangers I sold license plate protectors
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How cohousing can make...
we apologize. Skeptics will say that cohousing is only interesting or attractive to a very small group of people. And I'll agree with that. If you look at Western cultures around the globe, those living in cohousing are just a fractional percent.
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by analyzing their Anatomy we've calculated the predator X could move up to 5 m/s fractionally faster than the cameras horas
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Let's raise kids to be...
actually negotiate with people this one person offered me three cents and I got him up to three and a half I even knew at a seven-year old age that I could actually get a fractional percent of a cent and people would pay that because it multiplied up at 7 years old I figured out I got three and a half cents for a thousand coat hangers I sold license plate protectors
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How cohousing can make...
we apologize. Skeptics will say that cohousing is only interesting or attractive to a very small group of people. And I'll agree with that. If you look at Western cultures around the globe, those living in cohousing are just a fractional percent.
Video examples
Top 5 Dinosaur Moments PIPE...
by analyzing their Anatomy we've calculated the predator X could move up to 5 m/s fractionally faster than the cameras horas
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Quote examples
Neil Jackson
English Actor
I've played a lot of villains. The villains are always fun because you can just go fractionally bigger than life. It's always a grey area because you don't want to end up mustache-twirling and making them a little false, but you always get to play a little more, whereas the lead guy has to be a little more straight.
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Marie Curie
Polish Scientist
Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.
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Jeff Berwick
Canadian Businessman
A dollar vigilante is a free market individual who protests the government monopoly and financial policies, such as fractional reserve banking and unbacked fiat currencies, by selling those same fiat currencies in favor of other assets, including gold and precious metals.
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Francis William Aston
British Scientist
It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.
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Gabrielle Giffords
American Politician
Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.
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Robert B. Laughlin
American Physicist
When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.
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Tom Stoppard
English Dramatist
In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?
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David Milch
American Producer
My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So it kept me coming back.
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Murray Rothbard
American Economist
Commercial banks - that is, fractional reserve banks - create money out of thin air. Essentially, they do it in the same way as counterfeiters.
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Jacky Ickx
Belgian Driver
The margin between success and drama is fractional.
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Neil Jackson
English Actor
I've played a lot of villains. The villains are always fun because you can just go fractionally bigger than life. It's always a grey area because you don't want to end up mustache-twirling and making them a little false, but you always get to play a little more, whereas the lead guy has to be a little more straight.
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Marie Curie
Polish Scientist
Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.
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Jeff Berwick
Canadian Businessman
A dollar vigilante is a free market individual who protests the government monopoly and financial policies, such as fractional reserve banking and unbacked fiat currencies, by selling those same fiat currencies in favor of other assets, including gold and precious metals.
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Francis William Aston
British Scientist
It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.
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Gabrielle Giffords
American Politician
Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.
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Robert B. Laughlin
American Physicist
When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.
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Tom Stoppard
English Dramatist
In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?
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David Milch
American Producer
My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So it kept me coming back.
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Murray Rothbard
American Economist
Commercial banks - that is, fractional reserve banks - create money out of thin air. Essentially, they do it in the same way as counterfeiters.
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Jacky Ickx
Belgian Driver
The margin between success and drama is fractional.
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