ONE-FOURTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does one-fourth mean? 

• ONE-FOURTH (noun)
  The noun ONE-FOURTH has 1 sense:

1. one of four equal parts

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONE-FOURTH (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 ("one-fourth" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

"Adventure," one-fourth as long, had brought him twice as much from The Millennium.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The researchers warn that fewer products currently use BPF and BPS — BPA still has more than half the global market share for the chemicals, and the average concentration of BPF and BPS is about one-fourth that of BPA in the US population.

(Do Food Container Chemicals Make Us Fat?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)