ONE-THIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does one-third mean? 

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

1. one of three equal parts of a divisible whole

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONE-THIRD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of three equal parts of a divisible whole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

one-third; third; tierce

Context example:

it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement

Hypernyms ("one-third" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

One-third of patients diagnosed with breast cancer eventually develop metastases in distant organs, with an increased risk of death.

(Tell-tale biomarker detects early breast cancer, NIH)

One-third of the study participants were also obese.

(Vitamin D may protect against pollution-associated asthma symptoms in obese children, National Institutes of Health)

The revised measurement of the planet's diameter, 955 miles (1,535 kilometers), is about 60 miles (100 kilometers) greater than the next largest dwarf planet, Makemake, or about one-third smaller than Pluto.

(2007 OR10: Largest Unnamed World in the Solar System, NASA)

They found that one-third of the examined corals were contaminated with plastic waste.

(Plastic debris linked to coral disease, death, SciDev.Net)

After four days, one-third of meningeal macrophages were infected, and showed activity in many genes involved in fighting viruses.

(Meningitis changes immune cell makeup in the mouse brain lining, National Institutes of Health)

At 29,035 feet (8,848 m) in altitude, the air is only one-third as thick as the air at sea level.

(Everest, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

If they could cut the story down one-third, they would take it and send him forty dollars on receipt of his answer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Approximately one-third of the cases follow a malignant clinical course.

(Ovarian Steroid Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Because of this pattern of bone loss, about half the bone size benefits of physical activity during youth and one-third of the bone strength benefits were maintained lifelong.

(Physical Activity Brings Lasting Bone Benefits, NIH, US)

A new landmark clinical trial show that the drug Canagliflozin, approved to lower blood sugar levels in people with diabetes, led to an approximately one-third reduction in ESKD and death from renal causes.

(Managing diabetes key to lowering kidney disease, SciDev.Net)