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one-sixth

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n.1.a sixth part.
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Noun1.one-sixth - one part in six equal parts
sixth
common fraction, simple fraction - the quotient of two integers


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Texas produced its array of twenty-six counties; Florida replied that twelve counties were better than twenty-six in a country only one-sixth part of the size.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
I, Captain Nemo, on this 21st day of March, 1868, have reached the South Pole on the ninetieth degree; and I take possession of this part of the globe, equal to one-sixth of the known continents.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
When Fulton's tiny tea-kettle of a boat steamed up the Hudson to Albany in two days, who could have foreseen the steel leviathans, one-sixth of a mile in length, that can in the same time cut the Atlantic Ocean in halves?
The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert N. View in context
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