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TWO-THIRDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Two of three equal parts of a divisible whole
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("two-thirds" is a kind of...):
common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)
Context examples:
Cervical squamous intraepithelial neoplasia characterized by the presence of maturation in the upper two-thirds of the squamous epithelium and mild nuclear atypia which is present in all epithelial layers.
(Cervical squamous intraepithelial neoplasia 1, NCI Thesaurus)
A muscle that originates from the lower two-thirds of the anterior surface of the humerus that flexes the elbow.
(Brachialis, NCI Thesaurus)
In nearly two-thirds of failing heart samples, the researchers found that nitric oxide determined signaling balance to the arrestin pathway.
(Heart Disease Severity May Depend on Nitric Oxide Levels, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Two-thirds of my income goes in paying the interest of mortgages.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Around 500 million people, or more than two-thirds of the Indian population, are now affected by deficiencies in protein and micronutrients such as iron, zinc, and vitamin A.
(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)
Youth and Age was a weekly, and it had published two-thirds of his twenty- one-thousand-word serial when it went out of business.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The bottle stood near them, two-thirds full, and beside it lay a long, deeply stained cork.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
About two-thirds of that vapor escapes into space, but about one-third lands back on the surface of the Moon.
(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)
These he filled two-thirds full with undiluted whisky—“a gentleman’s drink?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
According to a paper on Zealandia published in the Geological Society of America, researchers say the continent is about two-thirds the size of Australia, measuring some five million square kilometers.
(Researchers Argue for Eighth Continent: Zealandia, VOA)
