DENOMINATOR

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The divisor of a fraction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("denominator" is a kind of...):

divisor (the number by which a dividend is divided)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "denominator"):

common denominator (an integer that is a common multiple of the denominators of two or more fractions)

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