three-fourths
See also: three fourths
English
Alternative forms
Noun
three-fourths (uncountable)
- Three of four equal parts (3/4, ¾, 0.75).
- three-fourths of the population
- three-fourths majority
- Synonym: three-quarters
Usage notes
- In the British corpus, three-quarters is much more common than three-fourths; in the American corpus, three-quarters is also much more common after year 2000.[1]
Translations
3/4
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See also
- Thesaurus:fraction
- Appendix:English numerals
References
- three-fourths, three-quarters at Google Ngram Viewer
Further reading
- three-fourths at OneLook Dictionary Search
- "three-fourths" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
- “three-fourths”, in Wordnik.
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