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- noun Plural form of
fraction .
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Examples
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He abandon the _more difficult_ objected to that, for he fractions which we _have got_, thought that a man ought to be and to introduce _easier able to pay for his dinner in fractions_.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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With that revolutionary shift a new currency of success emerged: the ability to gather, interpret, and react to new information in fractions of a second -- real time.
David Meerman Scott: New Research Shows Real-Time Companies are More Successful than their Fortune 100 Peers David Meerman Scott 2010
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Dr. Charpak's chamber was a 4-inch square box of criss-crossed wires that measured, in fractions of a second, the trajectories of these exploded particles.
Georges Charpak, 86; Physicist won Nobel for particle detector T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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And he offers lively lessons in fractions, and practice in counting to 256, as all of his creatures except the lion and the ant make pigs of themselves at dinner.
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As such this specialised area of games development combines the problems of developing parallel applications with the issues of distributed computing, but unlike render farms which can take hours to produce movie frames (Christensen, P.H. et al, 2006), or scientific investigations which might extend for years at a time (SETI@home, 2009), results must be calculated in fractions of a second to allow the game to progress.
A Sandpaper-Like Proposal Draft : KillerCodingNinjaBunny 2009
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With that revolutionary shift a new currency of success emerged: the ability to gather, interpret, and react to new information in fractions of a second -- real time.
David Meerman Scott: New Research Shows Real-Time Companies are More Successful than their Fortune 100 Peers David Meerman Scott 2010
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Plus he called the final result within fractions of one percent.
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With that revolutionary shift a new currency of success emerged: the ability to gather, interpret, and react to new information in fractions of a second -- real time.
David Meerman Scott: New Research Shows Real-Time Companies are More Successful than their Fortune 100 Peers David Meerman Scott 2010
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Girya or kettleballs usually come in fractions and multiples of 16 kilograms.
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With that revolutionary shift a new currency of success emerged: the ability to gather, interpret, and react to new information in fractions of a second -- real time.
David Meerman Scott: New Research Shows Real-Time Companies are More Successful than their Fortune 100 Peers David Meerman Scott 2010
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