Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an eightht part.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one part in eight equal parts
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Examples
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Historians estimate that women consumed from one-eighth to one-quarter of the spirituous liquor in early America, and early temperance organizations claimed that one hundred thousand women were bona fide “drunkards.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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And that one-eighth cup is a nutritional match for some half-cup servings of other produce items.
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.: Pizza Sauce Wins the Food Fight M.D. Joanna Dolgoff 2011
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The USDA acknowledges that one-eighth of a cup of paste contains half a cup's worth of tomato solids.
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.: Pizza Sauce Wins the Food Fight M.D. Joanna Dolgoff 2011
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In France, one-eighth of the whole working class is unionized.
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And that one-eighth cup is a nutritional match for some half-cup servings of other produce items.
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.: Pizza Sauce Wins the Food Fight M.D. Joanna Dolgoff 2011
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Dental costs were about one-eighth the cost of that in the US, with the exchange rate as it is now its probably even more of a saving, I don't think my dentist raised his prices.
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The fractions in question are simply the coefficients of relationship appropriate to the neighbors whom he affects; unit for clonal individuals, one-half for sibs, one-quarter for half-sibs, one-eighth for cousins,... and finally zero for all neighbors whose relationship can be considered negligibly small.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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The USDA acknowledges that one-eighth of a cup of paste contains half a cup's worth of tomato solids.
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.: Pizza Sauce Wins the Food Fight M.D. Joanna Dolgoff 2011
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So brothers who share half of their genes are more likely to put themselves out for each other than cousins, who share one-eighth of their genes.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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A great example is Square -- after just 18 months of operation, Square supports one-eighth of all U.S. merchants.
Brett King: Who Needs a Bank Branch When You've Got a Mobile Phone? Brett King 2012
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