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one-fourth

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n.1.A quarter; a fourth part.
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Noun1.one-fourthone-fourth - one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound"
fourth part, one-quarter, quarter, quartern, twenty-five percent, fourth
common fraction, simple fraction - the quotient of two integers
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I split it four ways: one-fourth to Johnny, one-fourth to the ship, one-fourth to me as owner, and one-fourth to me as skipper.
The Red One by London, Jack View in context
One-fourth of the first page is taken up with the heading of the journal; this gives it a rather top-heavy appearance; the rest of the first page is reading-matter; all of the second page is reading-matter; the other six pages are devoted to advertisements.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the third of January eighteen-hundred-and-forty-two, I opened the door of, and put my head into, a 'state-room' on board the Britannia steam- packet, twelve hundred tons burthen per register, bound for Halifax and Boston, and carrying Her Majesty's mails.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
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