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one-eighth

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for one-eighth.

Editorial note

A 45° angle is tau/8, one-eighth of the way around the circle.

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Quick take

The fraction that represents the real number 0.125; ⅛.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of one-eighth gathered in one view.

noun

The fraction that represents the real number 0.125; ⅛.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for one-eighth.

noun

The fraction that represents the real number 0.125; ⅛.

Example sentences

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A 45° angle is tau/8, one-eighth of the way around the circle.

2

In one Denver dispensary, a $30 purchase of one-eighth of the Trinity strain of cannabis includes $7.38 in state and local taxes — a near 33 percent rate.

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Or design an app that runs great on the hardware used by one-eighth of the market, but looks kind of crappy to the other seven-eighths of the market.

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.) - from a country with five times fewer people, a GDP one-eighth the size and a total land area 39 times smaller.

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During one particularly bad period of five or six years, Harris learned, lightning destroyed 40 ships of the line, 20 frigates, and 10 sloops, disabling about one-eighth of the British navy.

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> During one particularly bad period of five or six years, Harris learned, lightning destroyed 40 ships of the line, 20 frigates, and 10 sloops, disabling about one-eighth of the British navy.

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In other words, if you were in a fruit market with 1000 different kinds of fruit & you were not allowed to chop a fruit ( generally the case, you can't walk into Safeway, chop up an apple & walk out with one-eighth of an apple or half a grape or quarter blackberry ), then you'd have Knapsack, & there'd be no easy way to solve it for n=1000.

Quote examples

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Also, in Ontario in the 1990s, one-eighth of an ounce of weed was called a "half-quarter", ha ha.

2

For context, "In the 2025 incoming class, this group constitutes roughly one-eighth of our entire entering cohort."

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> “Our failure rate in the water is one-eighth of what we see on land,” Cutler said.

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This site [1] has some interesting info: [1886] "The average weight of twenty eggs laid by fowls of different breeds is two and one-eighth pounds.

Proper noun examples

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One-eighth of them did so after the fact.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use one-eighth in a sentence?

A 45° angle is tau/8, one-eighth of the way around the circle.

What does one-eighth mean?

The fraction that represents the real number 0.125; ⅛.

What part of speech is one-eighth?

one-eighth is commonly used as noun.