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one-sixth

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

Editorial note

Freidman control one-sixth of New York’s mini-fleet taxi medallions, which would mean approximately 1,000 of them.

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Quick take

One of six equal parts (1/6, ⅙, 0.1666…).

Meaning at a glance

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noun

One of six equal parts (1/6, ⅙, 0.1666…).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for one-sixth.

noun

One of six equal parts (1/6, ⅙, 0.1666…).

Example sentences

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Freidman control one-sixth of New York’s mini-fleet taxi medallions, which would mean approximately 1,000 of them.

2

I'm talking about a country where roughly one-sixth of its population would literally starve if this happened to them.

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And our stock - one-sixth of what it was ten years ago.

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That's only about one-sixth of a standard pill — pigs, dogs and other similarly sized animals would have to eat about 500 of them to get into any trouble.

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Only one-sixth of seizures are challenged.

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I wasn't going to waste my time responding to this, but wikipedia made it easy: The American Psychological Association's report Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns[8] states that IQ scores account for about one-fourth of the social status variance and one-sixth of the income variance.

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Several Chinese-language sources and downstream discussions (e.g., translated articles, YouTube breakdowns, and blogs like houdao.com) state that Block AttnRes achieves comparable (or better) performance to mHC while using only one-sixth of the data read/write volume (or memory bandwidth pressure) during inference/engineering deployment.

Quote examples

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Still, these issues are seen as morally acceptable by less than one-sixth of the population." "Americans are becoming more liberal on social issues, as evidenced not only by the uptick in the percentage describing themselves as socially liberal, but also by their increasing willingness to say that a number of previously frowned-upon behaviors are morally acceptable.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use one-sixth in a sentence?

Freidman control one-sixth of New York’s mini-fleet taxi medallions, which would mean approximately 1,000 of them.

What does one-sixth mean?

One of six equal parts (1/6, ⅙, 0.1666…).

What part of speech is one-sixth?

one-sixth is commonly used as noun.