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FOURTH PART
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fourth part mean?
• FOURTH PART (noun)
The noun FOURTH PART has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: FOURTH PART used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of four equal parts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
fourth; fourth part; one-fourth; one-quarter; quarter; quartern; twenty-five percent
Context example:
a quarter of a pound
Hypernyms ("fourth part" is a kind of...):
common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)
Context examples
I had formerly been surgeon of another ship where he was master, and a fourth part owner, in a voyage to the Levant.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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