fractional number

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Numeral (linguistics)

Noun

fractional number (plural fractional numbers)

(grammar) A word that expresses one or more of a specific number of parts of a whole.
Synonyms: fractional, fractional numeral, partitive numeral

In English, most ordinal numbers double as fractional numbers — "third", "fourth", and so on — with the exception of "second", whose corresponding fractional number is "half".
(arithmetic) A fraction, such as $\textstyle {\frac {1}{2}}$ or $\textstyle {\frac {3}{5}}$ .
Synonym: fraction

Coordinate terms

(grammar): cardinal number, ordinal number, distributive number, multiplier

See also

numeral

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