Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The expression written above the line in a common fraction to indicate the number of parts of the whole.
- noun An expression to be divided by another; a dividend.
- noun One that numbers; an enumerator.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who numbers.
- noun In arithmetic, the number in a vulgar fraction which shows how many parts of a unit are taken.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who numbers.
- noun (Math.) The term in a fraction which indicates the number of fractional units that are taken.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun arithmetic The
number orexpression written above the line in afraction (thus 1 in ½). - noun An
enumerator ; someone whocounts things.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the dividend of a fraction
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Examples
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As the sample size increases, the denominator shrinks, and the ratio increases because the numerator is fixed.
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The numerator is negative, it begins with -47845869850733698144899338333210878162030638218660 and ends with 57164275665935124168181176013725629647185402960697.
Wolfram Blog : Today We Broke the Bernoulli Record: From the Analytical Engine to Mathematica 2008
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But the numerator is not so simple; in fact it’s 57,675,292 digits long.
Wolfram Blog : Today We Broke the Bernoulli Record: From the Analytical Engine to Mathematica 2008
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Rational numbers consist of a signed integer known as the numerator, and a positive non-zero integer known as the denominator.
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For a straight-line demand curve, the numerator is the inverse of the slope of the line, equal to Q/P2-P1.
Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994
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For a straight-line demand curve, the numerator is the inverse of the slope of the line, equal to Q/P2-P1.
Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994
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This number is recorded as the denominator of a vulgar fraction of which the numerator is the number recorded for the specific serum.
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Each letter in the dispatch was represented by a fraction, of which the numerator was the number of the letter in one of the lines of the song, and the denominator the number of the line.
The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901
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Each letter in the dispatch was represented by a fraction, of which the numerator was the number of the letter in one of the lines of the song, and the denominator the number of the line.
The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I William James Stillman 1864
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For all volume statistics presented, the numerator is the total volume sold during the applicable period and the denominator is the number of calendar days during the applicable period.
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