分の一
ぶんのいち
one Nth part (e.g. one fifth, one tenth); one out of N
Meanings
Expression, Suffix
one Nth part (e.g. one fifth, one tenth); one out of N
Example sentences
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I ate a quarter of a cake.
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I ate a quarter of the cake.
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The gravity of the moon is one-sixth of that of the earth.
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The population of Japan is one-eighth as that of China.
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He did it in only a fraction of a second.
More examples (4)
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The population of Wellington is only about a fortieth of that of Tokyo.
ニュージーランド全体の人口は341万人で、その7分の1はマオリ族です。
The whole population of New Zealand is 3,410,000, and one seventh of it are the Maori people.
今の傾向が続くと、今後30年以内に65歳以上の人が人口の4分の1を占めることになる。
If these tendencies continue, those aged 65 or more will account for a quarter of the population within 30 years.
マイクロファイバークロスは、髪の毛の100分の1という細さの繊維で編みあげられたクロスです。
Microfibre cloth is cloth woven from fibres as narrow as a hundredth of the width of a hair.