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- noun The most basic, least sophisticated level of taste, sensibility, or opinion among a group of people.
- noun The group having such taste, sensibility, or opinion.
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- noun mathematics The smallest positive integer which is a
multiple of every denominator of severalfractions . - noun figuratively The most simple or
base shared interest or characteristic among a group or collection of people etc.
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WORD: lowest common denominator
EXAMPLE:
' For the moment, their consciousnesses were reduced to the lowest common denominator of scientists everywhere---overwhelming curiosity, blind and deaf to everything but the facts that could satisfy it .'
--- 2009. KURT VONNEGUT. Look at the Birdie. (Previously unpublished short fiction, posthumously collected, with a foreword by Sidney Offit). ISBN 978-0-385-34371-8. "The Petrified Ants." (Page 194).
May 10, 2014