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fractions

noun

plural of fraction

as in fragments

a broken or irregular part of something that often remains incomplete if even a tiny fraction of that cookie broke off and fell into the delicate watch works, it could mess things up

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Recent Examples of fractions In a fast-moving game, players are constantly processing visual information, tracking movement and making decisions in fractions of a second. — George Toh, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 Smaller fractions of the money would be directed to the state’s Outdoor Equity Grant Program to help people access the outdoors and to the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office to help create new jobs in the industry. — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2026 Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machines is designed for continuous machine-to-machine transactions, including microtransactions worth fractions of a cent. — Shlomit Wagman, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026 The brightly colored insects, native to Australia, are small — just fractions of an inch long — with colors that pop under a microscope. — Brad Balukjian, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026 Specifically, is the set of all rational numbers, meaning those expressible as fractions, such as 1, or , or . — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026 In a few fractions of a second, the ball travels just over 60 feet. — Noah White, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2026 When scaled across hundreds of millions of users, those fractions add up to massive daily expenditures. — New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026 Machine learning models, by contrast, make predictions in fractions of a second. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026

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But the archaeologists who excavated the new skeletal fragments from Shanidar Cave in the Kurdistan region of Iraq say the fossils weave a complex tale of Neanderthal life and death, beyond what appeared to be deliberate violence.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026
The show’s name was inspired by the scientific name for the nightshades family of plants and the paintings had fragments of darkness.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of fragments

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The trick is to break up the jacket-and-skirt combo and pair each with more casual pieces that take the edge off its classic finish.

— Tatiana Ojea, Glamour, 17 Oct. 2026
Everyone made it out of the shoot unharmed, but the finished product is filled with harrowing set-pieces that are sure to push audiences to the brink.

— William Earl, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026

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O’Rourke and double bassist Johan Berthling shape a steady drone, while Ishibashi’s piano runs suggest time-lapse footage of ice crystals forming, ordinary little bits cohering into objects of wonder.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Cryptographers responded by lengthening the keys, and 2,048 bits is now considered the minimum.

— Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026

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