Joe watched it carefully, judging it to the fraction of an inch.

If the hand be thoroughly wet in water it may be safely thrust for a fraction of a second into a flaming gas jet.

But mark thisfor the fraction of a second only.

; but what are we to do with the large foreign fraction of our population imported within the last forty years, a great proportion of whom never so much as heard even of the war of 1812?

Then also Rotterdam, through which Germany does a great deal of its trade, remains open, whilst a fraction of her foreign trade is being carried on through Denmark, Scandinavia, and Switzerland.

[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.

Fraction N. fraction, fractional part; part &c 51.

Fraction N. fraction, fractional part; part &c 51.

As a matter of fact the number so raised, for quite two centuries, was only an insignificant fraction of the whole.

Yet he and his nominee were amongst the small fraction of the expeditionary body which never reached a place where disembarkation was possible.

If it is used, freedom of movement for the ships must be given up, because they cannot go so far from it as to be obliged to consume a considerable fraction of their coal in reaching it and returning to their station.

Last and chief, while literature, gagged with linsey-woolsey, can only deal with a fraction of the life of man, talk goes fancy free and may call a spade a spade.

On the 1st of January next the entire public debt of the United States, funded and unfunded, will be reduced to within a fraction of $7,000,000, of which $2,227,363 are not of right redeemable until the 1st of January, 1834, and $4,735,296 not until the 2d of January, 1835.

Sometimes a sidestep made his blows miss by the slightest fraction of an inch.

Seen him around here?" The slightest fraction of a second in hesitation.

If necessary, he designates the leader for the indicated fraction.

When about to rush, he causes the men of the fraction to cease firing and to hold themselves flat, but in readiness to spring forward instantly.

The leader of the rush (at the signal of the platoon leader, if the latter be not the leader of the rush) commands: FOLLOW ME, and, running at top speed, leads the fraction to the new line, where be halts it and causes it to open fire.

The first fraction having established itself on the new line, the next like fraction is sent forward by its platoon leader, without further command of the captain, and so on, successively, until the entire company is on the line established by the first rush.

The first fraction having established itself on the new line, the next like fraction is sent forward by its platoon leader, without further command of the captain, and so on, successively, until the entire company is on the line established by the first rush.

In an advance by rushes, leaders of troops in firing positions are responsible for the delivery of heavy fire to cover the advance of each rushing fraction.

Do not neglect that great fraction who are never going to get anything higher and beyond in order to put your time on those who are going on to colleges and universities.

The preceding testimony proves conclusively, that the quantity of food generally allowed to a full-grown field-hand, is a peck of corn a week, or a fraction over a quart and a gill of corn a day.

The author subjected the original oil to fractioned distillation, and examined different fractions separately.

An imperceptible fraction may, in certain cases, constitute an enormity.