noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
improper fraction
proper fraction
vulgar fraction
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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In the plasma, the bicarbonate concentration comprises the second largest anion fraction , with chloride being the largest anion fraction.
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Arjunas must make up a surprisingly large fraction of the bodies striking Earth.
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Down there, it encountered the large fraction of the planet that is still molten, and began to crowd it.
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The ring of fire contains a very large fraction of the earthquake activity of the entire planet.
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Import prices rise and since imports are a large fraction of consumption, the consumer price index rises right along with imports.
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Getting a large fraction of companies involved, however, will require a fundamental change in business attitudes.
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Or should the rich man or woman be made to pay a larger fraction of this income as taxes?
left
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Patients with left ventricular ejection fraction greater than 30% and no inducible ventricular arrhythmia comprise a heterogeneous group.
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The mean left ventricular ejection fraction was 46%.
mere
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A mere fraction of North sea revenues is to be spent on enforcing the safety regime.
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What I had done so far amounted to a mere fraction of nothing at all.
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A mere fraction of the population shared in the cultural revolution.
significant
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A significant fraction of their water content can emerge from the explosion at a speed below the escape velocity of Mercury.
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Although much of this heat was radiated back into space, a significant fraction was retained by the growing planet.
small
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Most humans use only a small fraction of their total useful brainpower. 8.
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And the fact is, his take is a small fraction of the wealth he has created for others.
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At one extreme, Murdoch employs a small fraction of the 6,000 production workers he had in Fleet Street.
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The Defense Department therefore is paying only a small fraction of the benefits until it gets more money from Congress.
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No spacecraft has ever moved faster than a small fraction of this speed.
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Many options may be purchased at a very small fraction of the cost of the underlying security.
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Even the most significant unions could recruit no more than a small fraction of the workers in their industry.
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There are, however, some real gems in a small fraction of the 67 chapters.
substantial
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But over a substantial fraction of the wake width, turbulent and non-turbulent motion alternate.
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If such balancing selection maintains a substantial fraction of life-history variation, it will generate negative genetic correlations among life-history traits.
tiny
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The cases reported to Hoffman-La Roche I believe are a tiny fraction of all reactions.
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But the passengers are only a tiny fraction of the population, basically its middle class.
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But the companies are having to point out once again the tiny fraction of land they take up on relation to the whole.
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It is good to recall that astronomers cover only a tiny fraction of the sky at any time.
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Its area is a tiny fraction of that occupied by the 21 hostile Arab states.
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Most new radical ideas in science turn out to be incorrect; only a tiny fraction turn out to be correct.
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As you can see from Table 16.2, they account for a tiny fraction of total assets.
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In other words, Salomon carved a tiny fraction out of each financial transaction.
ventricular
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Patients with left ventricular ejection fraction greater than 30% and no inducible ventricular arrhythmia comprise a heterogeneous group.
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The mean left ventricular ejection fraction was 46%.
■ NOUN
class
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Within modern capitalist societies the monopoly corporations constitute the dominant class fraction .
ejection
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Patients with left ventricular ejection fraction greater than 30% and no inducible ventricular arrhythmia comprise a heterogeneous group.
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Primary end points of the study were infarct size and ejection fraction , and the results revealed no differences between the groups.
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It remained a significant predictor when adjusted for clinical, demographic, Holter data and ejection fraction .
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Radionuclide left-ventricular ejection fraction was 18%.
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After 4 months, cardiac function was reassessed: fractional shortening and ejection fraction was 33% and 47%, respectively.
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The mean left ventricular ejection fraction was 46%.
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Moreover, mortality and reinfarction rates were similar and left-ventricular ejection fractions at 1 month were virtually identical.
mole
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Note that the mole fraction of either A or B can be used to express the composition of the solution.
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The activity of the solvent can be considered to be equal to the mole fraction of the solvent x 1.
■ VERB
move
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By moving the hatch a fraction of an inch we could hear what went on below, but we could see nothing.
open
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Leave the inner tent door open a fraction , even if you don't have mesh.
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He was reading a newspaper-with some difficulty, as the crush meant he could only open it a fraction .
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He stopped outside the kitchen door and carefully cracked it open a fraction - and looked straight into Jane's wide eyes.
raise
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Repeat the exercise but this time raise your body a fraction further with each count for even greater toning.
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With toes pointed, raise the leg a fraction higher 20 times, holding each raise for 1 second.
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Point the toes and raise the leg a fraction higher 15 times, holding each raise for 1 second.
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In the event the Hansard Society raised only a fraction of the sum required and no consultancy payment was made.
reach
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And SeniorNet only reaches a fraction of the seniors using computers.
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This is precisely why we have not reached more than a fraction of the people who are now in deepest need.
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Each has gone beyond serving a few dozen students, although they still reach only a fraction of the total student population.
represent
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However, both categories represent a small fraction of the population.
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Anyway, they represent only a fraction of the long distance paths Britain has to offer.
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Wilson points out that the designer side represents only a fraction of the fashion industry's £6.5 billion turnover.
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This image represents a tiny fraction of the activities and aspirations of International Women's Day.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A microwave oven cooks food in a fraction of the time required by a normal oven.
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a problem that affects only a small fraction of the total population
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Computers can now do the same job at a fraction of the cost.
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Employees' salaries are just a fraction of the total cost of the project.
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The disease affects only a tiny fraction of the population.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the passengers are only a tiny fraction of the population, basically its middle class.
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By 1920 the fraction of eighteen-to twenty-one-year-olds in college had doubled to 8 percent.
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If those expensive cherry tomatoes are your idea of heaven, why not grow your own at a fraction of the price?
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In the plasma, the bicarbonate concentration comprises the second largest anion fraction , with chloride being the largest anion fraction.
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The interim dividend goes up a fraction to 3.1p, from 2.9p.
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The ratio of sample to population is normally expressed as a fraction , known as the sampling fraction.
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What I had done so far amounted to a mere fraction of nothing at all.