Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Mathematics The expression written above the line in a common fraction to indicate the number of parts of the whole.
- n. Mathematics An expression to be divided by another; a dividend.
- n. One that numbers; an enumerator.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who numbers.
- n. In arithmetic, the number in a vulgar fraction which shows how many parts of a unit are taken. Thus, when a unit is divided into 9 equal parts, and 5 are taken to form the fraction, it is expressed thus,
—that is, five ninths—5 being the numerator and 9 the denominator.
Wiktionary
- n. arithmetic The number or expression written above the line in a fraction (thus 1 in ½).
- n. An enumerator; someone who counts things.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who numbers.
- n. (Math.) The term in a fraction which indicates the number of fractional units that are taken.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the dividend of a fraction
Examples
“As the sample size increases, the denominator shrinks, and the ratio increases because the numerator is fixed.”
“The numerator is negative, it begins with -47845869850733698144899338333210878162030638218660 and ends with 57164275665935124168181176013725629647185402960697.”
Wolfram Blog : Today We Broke the Bernoulli Record: From the Analytical Engine to Mathematica
“But the numerator is not so simple; in fact it’s 57,675,292 digits long.”
Wolfram Blog : Today We Broke the Bernoulli Record: From the Analytical Engine to Mathematica
“Rational numbers consist of a signed integer known as the numerator, and a positive non-zero integer known as the denominator.”
“For a straight-line demand curve, the numerator is the inverse of the slope of the line, equal to Q/P2-P1.”
“This number is recorded as the denominator of a vulgar fraction of which the numerator is the number recorded for the specific serum.”
“Each letter in the dispatch was represented by a fraction, of which the numerator was the number of the letter in one of the lines of the song, and the denominator the number of the line.”
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