FOURTH PART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fourth part mean? 

• FOURTH PART (noun)
  The noun FOURTH PART has 1 sense:

1. one of four equal parts

  Familiarity information: FOURTH PART used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOURTH PART (noun)

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)