THREE-FOURTHS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does three-fourths mean? 

• THREE-FOURTHS (noun)
  The noun THREE-FOURTHS has 1 sense:

1. three of four equal parts

  Familiarity information: THREE-FOURTHS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THREE-FOURTHS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Three of four equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

three-fourths; three-quarters

Context example:

three-fourths of a pound

Hypernyms ("three-fourths" is a kind of...):

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)

 Context examples 

More than three-fourths of the plant nitrogen uptake was from organic nitrogen that had to be mineralized, which was well predicted by the STBA level.

(New Test Can Determine Nitrogen Levels in Soil, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Half the experiments lasting 10 years or more found a change in the total number of plant species, and nearly three-fourths found changes in the types of species.

(Environmental change is triggering an identity switch in grasslands, National Science Foundation)

There is likewise a kind of beggarly princes in Europe, not able to make war by themselves, who hire out their troops to richer nations, for so much a day to each man; of which they keep three-fourths to themselves, and it is the best part of their maintenance: such are those in many northern parts of Europe.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It's a little out-of-the-way place, where they administer what is called ecclesiastical law, and play all kinds of tricks with obsolete old monsters of acts of Parliament, which three-fourths of the world know nothing about, and the other fourth supposes to have been dug up, in a fossil state, in the days of the Edwards.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)