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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 or expression written above the line in a fraction (thus 1 in ½).
  • noun An enumerator; someone who counts things.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the dividend of a fraction

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