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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Mathematics The expression written below the line in a common fraction that indicates the number of parts into which one whole is divided.
  2. n. A common trait or characteristic.
  3. n. An average level or standard: The success of the film demonstrates the denominator of public taste.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who or that which gives a name; one from whom or that from which a name is derived.
  2. n. Specifically In math.: In arithmetic, that term of a fraction which indicates the value of the fractional unit; that term of a fraction which represents the divisor, and is, in common fractions, written below the dividend or numerator. See fraction. Thus, in ⅗, 5 is the denominator, showing that the integer is divided into five parts, 3 of which parts arc taken.
  3. n. In algebra, a divisor placed under a dividend, as in a numerical fraction.
  4. n. Same as denominant.

Wiktionary

  1. n. arithmetic The number or expression written below the line in a fraction (thus 2 in ½).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who, or that which, gives a name; origin or source of a name.
  2. n. (Arith.) That number placed below the line in common fractions which shows into how many parts the integer or unit is divided.
  3. n. (Alg.) That part of any expression under a fractional form which is situated below the horizontal line signifying division.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the divisor of a fraction

Etymologies

  1. From Late Latin dēnōminātor ("that which names"). (Wiktionary)

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