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ONE-THIRD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of three equal parts of a divisible whole
Example:
it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("one-third" is a kind of...):
common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)
Context examples:
Yet no computer model has been able to explain why CO2 levels were as much as one-third lower when an ice age settled in.
(Why atmospheric carbon dioxide was lower during ice ages, National Science Foundation)
About one-third of children who have learning disabilities also have ADHD, which makes it hard to focus.
(Learning Disorders, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
The receptors sit on cell surfaces and are targets for nearly one-third of FDA-approved medications.
(Heart Disease Severity May Depend on Nitric Oxide Levels, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The remaining one-third can be attributed to human-caused climate change.
(New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920, National Science Foundation)
Specifically, the sleep-disrupted mice developed arterial plaques, or fatty deposits, that were up to one-third larger than the mice with normal sleep patterns.
(Study helps solve mystery of how sleep protects against heart disease, National Institutes of Health)
Around one-third of all food grown and reared for humans is lost during production and transport, or wasted in households and during industrial food processing, they said.
(Model shows pathway to feeding the world, SciDev.Net)
Kepler-186f orbits its star once every 130 days and receives one-third the energy from its star that Earth gets from the sun, placing it nearer the outer edge of the habitable zone.
(Kepler Telescope Discovers First Earth-Size Planet in 'Habitable Zone', NASA)
One useful result of his former experiences was that he could talk fluently in the Lingoa Geral, which is the peculiar talk, one-third Portuguese and two-thirds Indian, which is current all over Brazil.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
About two-thirds of that vapor escapes into space, but about one-third lands back on the surface of the Moon.
(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)
The new worlds orbit a star named GJ 357, an M-type dwarf about one-third the Sun’s mass and size and about 40% cooler that our star.
(Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World, NASA)
