THREE-QUARTERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does three-quarters mean? 

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

1. three of four equal parts

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THREE-QUARTERS (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-quarters" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

I sat three-quarters of an hour in the flower-garden, while Fanny cut the roses; and very pleasant it was, I assure you, but very hot.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

How will you have me, full length or three-quarters, on my head or my heels?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Approximately three-quarters of SCID infants who received transplants survived for at least five years.

(Early treatment benefits infants with severe combined immunodeficiency, NIH)

An island group in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia.

(Micronesia, Federated States of, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Across all menu categories, at least three-quarters of individual menu items were below the daily maximum recommended intake for energy, fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt.

(Menu labelling linked to less fat and salt in food, University of Cambridge)

Its planking was three-quarters of an inch thick.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

An island group in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia, west of the Marshall Islands and north of the Solomon Islands.

(Micronesia, Federated States of, NCI Thesaurus)

The gorge in which they had camped was a mere wedge-shaped cleft among the hills, three-quarters of a mile deep, with the small rugged rising upon which they stood at the further end, and the brown crags walling it in on three sides.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ten minutes would have been all that was necessary, perhaps all that was proper; and I had told my father I should certainly be at home before him—but there was no getting away, no pause; and, to my utter astonishment, I found, when he (finding me nowhere else) joined me there at last, that I had been actually sitting with them very nearly three-quarters of an hour.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was half an hour, or possibly three-quarters, before everything had been found, and Lorimer was already waiting in Jermyn Street with the inevitable baskets, whilst my uncle stood in the open door of his house, clad in his long fawn-coloured driving-coat, with no sign upon his calm pale face of the tumult of impatience which must, I was sure, be raging within.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)