25 examples of denominator in sentences

In the sociology and geography and economics of the Orient this Pacific Ocean was the great common denominator.

THE COMMON DENOMINATOR IV.

III THE COMMON DENOMINATOR

Isn't it rather like the process in mathematics where we reduce fractions to a common denominator?

Denominator not exceeding 100: arranged in order of magnitude. 1881 July 6 A New Method of Clearing the Lunar Distance.

mediocrity, least common denominator.

[Math.]; fraction, rational number; surd, irrational number; transcendental number; mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate; numerator, denominator; decimal, circulating decimal, repetend; common measure, aliquot part; prime number, prime, relative prime, prime factor, prime pair; reciprocal; totient^. binary number, octal number, hexadecimal number [Comp.]. permutation, combination, variation; election.

The numerator of the third is the sum of the numerators of the first and second, its denominator, the sum of the two denominators.

The numerator of the third is the sum of the numerators of the first and second, its denominator, the sum of the two denominators.

The amount is always relative, that is to say, just so much as will maintain the proportion between what he wants and what he gets; for to measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.

It is not the surface whim of public opinion, it is its greatest common denominator that approximates the truth.

Queen Emma, of course, desired the coronation of Hardicanute, but, though supported by Earl Godwin, a man of great influence and educated to a high degree for his time, able indeed, it is said, at a moment's notice, to add up things and reduce things to a common denominator, it could not be.

I listed all the names you reported and studied them carefully, trying to find their common denominator.

At any rate, there are no products of human thought and feeling capable of being expressed by form which do not find their common denominator in a linear drawing.

Well, what this role meant in reality was that I would read the articles awaiting publication, picking up the odd grammatical error, but more importantly I was the lowest common denominator litmus test if the pages didn't stand up to my paltry knowledge of the Goan political system then (the argument goes) it would not be understood by Goans in the furthest-flung corners of the globe.

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.

With the compound numerals, such a construction is less common; yet the denominator of a fraction may be a number of this sort: as, seven twenty-fifths.

Science, art, nature, life,all are carried back to the same denominator.

Let him reckon how many of the ten thousand or so names here recorded he has ever heard of before, let him make this myriad the denominator of a fraction to which the dozen perennial fames shall be the numerator, and he will find that his dividend of a chance at escaping speedy extinction is not worth making himself unhappy about.

All the drops of water in the ocean, or all the grains of sand upon the shore, or all the leaves on all the trees, if converted into numbers and used as a denominator, with one for a numerator, could hardly tell the fraction of a chance that gave us life.

Besides these exotics, there are indigenous plants, which make a fraction in the population, of which the denominator is tolerably high.

As a medium of exchange, money comes to be the unit in which most prices are expressed and compared; in other words, it becomes the common denominator of prices.

Now suppose that three hundred pupils, all ignorant of the method of reducing fractions to a common denominator, and yet all old enough to learn, are collected in one room.

The guilt of every national sin comes back to the voter in a fraction the denominator of which is several millions.

As the object of all eloquence is to find the least common denominator of men's souls, to fall just within the natural comprehension, it cannot obviously have any chance with a literary ambition which aims at falling just outside it.

25 examples of  denominator  in sentences