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THREE-QUARTERS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Three of four equal parts
Example:
three-fourths of a pound
Synonyms:
three-fourths; three-quarters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("three-quarters" is a kind of...):
common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)
Context examples:
His repudiation of this offer was almost shrill enough, in the excess of its surprise and humility, to have penetrated to the ears of Mrs. Crupp, then sleeping, I suppose, in a distant chamber, situated at about the level of low-water mark, soothed in her slumbers by the ticking of an incorrigible clock, to which she always referred me when we had any little difference on the score of punctuality, and which was never less than three-quarters of an hour too slow, and had always been put right in the morning by the best authorities.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It would not have been the awkwardness of a moment, it would have been rather a pleasure, previous to the suspicions of this very day; she could have talked to him of Harriet, and the three-quarters of a mile would have seemed but one.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
An enormous roll of green baize had arrived from Northampton, and been cut out by Mrs. Norris (with a saving by her good management of full three-quarters of a yard), and was actually forming into a curtain by the housemaids, and still the play was wanting; and as two or three days passed away in this manner, Edmund began almost to hope that none might ever be found.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
