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单词 fraction
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fractionn.

Brit. /ˈfrakʃn/, U.S. /ˈfrækʃən/
Forms: Also Middle English–1500s fraccion, fraccyon.
Etymology: < Old French fraccion (French fraction), < ecclesiastical Latin fractiōn-em, noun of action < frangĕre to break.
1. The action of breaking:
a. in the Eucharist: the breaking or dividing of the bread.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > parts of service > canon > [noun] > breaking of host
fraction?1504
society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > [noun] > breaking of bread in
fraction?1504
?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) ii. xi. 190 Many foloweth hym to be parteners of the fraccyon of his brede.
1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 50 Though it may be said..that he suffreth fraction or breaking in the Sacrament when it is broken..yet [etc.].
1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist 67 The distributing the Bread to the Company, after the Benediction and Fraction, was customary among the Jews.
1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 377 The Fraction is the most solemn, ancient, and significant Action of the whole of the Formulary of Consecration.
b. with reference to material things in general, and to lines, etc.; also, refraction (of light). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun]
breachOE
breakingc975
brusure1382
breaka1400
crasure1413
chininga1420
bursting1487
bruisinga1500
fraction?a1560
chinking1565
springingc1595
infraction1623
disruption1646
abruption1654
diruption1656
chapping1669
chopping1669
fracturea1676
rumple1746
breakage1775
disrupture1785
fracturing1830
disruptment1834
snapping1891
fractionation1926
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > refraction > [noun]
fraction?a1560
refraction1563
infraction1635
diaclasis1883
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxi. sig. G j v Glasses transparent, whiche by fraction should vnite or dissipate the images.
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 343 Fraction is the breaking of some matter with ones hand, or with an instrument.
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. ii. xiv. 142 The bending or Curvation of a straight line into the circumference of a Circle..is Fraction continually encreasing.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. iii. 30 Several parcels of Nature that retain still the evident marks of fraction and ruine.
1813 T. Busby tr. Lucretius Nature of Things i. Comment. xxi Had compound bodies been subject to unlimited fraction.
c. with reference to immaterial things; chiefly in obsolete uses, e.g. a disturbance (of the mind), an infraction or rupture (of the peace).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > confusion, muddle-headedness > [noun] > cause of
fraction1547
upset1899
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > discontinuity or interrupted condition > [noun] > interruption
interruption1489
abruption1585
interpellation1611
rupture1639
interrupture1648
fraction1661
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] > instance of
viretotec1386
moving?a1439
reela1450
stir1487
songa1500
pirrie1536
hurly-burly1548
make-a-do1575
confusions1599
the hunt is upa1625
ruffle1642
fuss1701
fraction1721
fizza1734
dust1753
noration1773
steeriea1776
splorea1791
rook1808
piece of work1810
curfuffle1813
squall1813
rookerya1820
stushie1824
shindy1829
shine1832
hurroosh1836
fustle1839
upsetting1847
shinty1848
ructions1862
vex1862
houp-la1870
set-out1875
hoodoo1876
tingle-tangle1880
shemozzle1885
take-on1893
dust-up1897
hoo-ha1931
tra-la-la1933
gefuffle1943
tzimmes1945
kerfuffle1946
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe ii. f. xxixv This impediment [sc. dreames]..maye come..specially of fraction of the minde.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 188 When the affections are glewed to the world, Death makes not a Dissolution, but a Fraction.
1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials I. iv. 51 The French king having lost his friendship by divers fractions of the peace with England.
1842 H. Taylor Edwin the Fair i. v The blackbird sang us forth..loud and full at first..then with pause And fraction fitfully.
2. The result of breaking; the state of being broken; a broken place, breach, fissure, rupture; spec. in Surgery a fracture. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > a crack or breach
chinec888
bruche?a1300
crevice1382
scar1390
scorec1400
rimea1425
riftc1425
riving1440
creekc1480
brack1524
rive1527
bruise1530
crack1530
chink1545
chap1553
riff1577
chop1578
chinker1581
coane1584
fraction1587
cranice1603
slifter1607
fracture1641
shake1651
snap1891
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > fractures
brucheOE
fissurec1400
fracture?1541
compound fracture1543
fraction1587
attrition1634
effracture1634
flap-fracture1658
complicated fracture1745
abduction1753
star fracture1840
stress fracture1911
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1349/1 Healing of bones broken, termed commonlie fractions.
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. vii. 67 Carefully feel with your finger, whether there be any fraction.
1685 Mr. Travestin Acct. Proc. against Turks 20 We..made large Fractions in the Bastion.
1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 36 If we had seen the mountains..when the earth was fresh broken..the fractions..of them would have appear'd very gastly.
1705 Cherry in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (O.H.S.) I. 22 A fall..caus'd a great fraction in my nose.
1798 W. Blair Soldier's Friend (Dublin ed.) 74 Wounds, fractions, and dislocations.
3. An interruption of good feeling or harmony; discord, dissension; a rupture. In early use also: A breach of the peace, brawling. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] > a disturbance caused by dissension
tirpeilc1330
to-doc1330
affraya1393
frayc1420
tuilyiea1500
fraction1502
broil1525
ruffle1534
hurly-burly1548
embroilment1609
roil1690
fracas1727
row1746
the devil among the tailors1756
noration1773
splorea1791
kick-upa1793
rumption1802
ruction1809
squall1813
tulyie-mulyie1827
shindy1829
shine1832
donnybrook1852
shiveau1862
roughhouse1882
ruckus1885
shemozzle1885
turn-up1891
rookus1892
funk1900
incident1913
potin1922
shivoo1924
furore1946
shindig1961
society > society and the community > dissent > [noun]
unsibeOE
unsaughta1122
un-i-sibc1275
conteckc1290
discordingc1325
distancec1325
discordance1340
dissensionc1384
batea1400
discordc1425
variancec1425
variationc1485
disgreement?1504
distinction1520
factiona1538
jar1546
variety1546
disagreeance1548
disagreeing1548
disagreement1548
misliking1564
odds1567
mislikea1586
discordancy1587
disagree1589
distancy1595
dissent1596
dislike1598
secting1598
dichostasy1606
fraction1609
dissentation1623
ill blood1624
misintelligence1632
clashing1642
misunderstanding1642
discomposure1659
disjointinga1715
uneasiness1744
friction1760
misunderstand1819
unharmony1866
inharmony1867
trouble at (the or t') mill1967
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. ix. sig. t.iiii v Whiche taken wylfully ony persone in the..chirchyerde..or the whiche there maken ony fraccyon.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 97 Their fraction is more our wish then their faction. View more context for this quotation
a1626 J. Horsey Relacion Trav. in E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. (1856) 262 Betwen the Poll and them fræctions, and fæctions among themselves.
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon ii. vi. 262 By which means..a fraction betwixt them must of necessity ensue.
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. iv. i. 208 Fractions at Court.—Ship-wreck of Ministrys.
1721 [see sense 1c].
4.
a. Something broken off; a disconnected portion; a fragment, scrap, small piece. Said with reference both to material and immaterial things. by fractions: piecemeal, by halves. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment
shreddingc950
brucheOE
shredc1000
brokec1160
truncheonc1330
scartha1340
screedc1350
bruisinga1382
morsel1381
shedc1400
stumpc1400
rag?a1425
brokalyc1440
brokeling1490
mammocka1529
brokelette1538
sheavec1558
shard1561
fragment1583
segment1586
brack1587
parcel1596
flaw1607
fraction1609
fracture1641
pash1651
frustillation1653
hoof1655
arrachement1656
jaga1658
shattering1658
discerption1685
scar1698
twitter1715
frust1765
smithereens1841
chitling1843
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > incompletely or partly [phrase]
in partc1300
a (also in, of) party1372
to (the) half1547
by halves1563
by fractions1796
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. ii. 161 The fractions of her faith, orts of her loue. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. ii. 207.
1641 W. Prynne Antipathie To Rdr. sig. ¶¶¶4 My primitive intention was, to have presented thee with this..Antipathy intirely at the same instant without fractions.
1656 W. Davenant Siege of Rhodes To Rdr. sig. A3v Why in an heroick Argument my numbers are so often diversify'd and fall into short fractions.
1657 R. Sanderson 14 Serm. Pref. sig. E4v Whilest they are still crumbling into fractions and factions.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 19 No one is disposed to be a friend by fractions.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 105 Mahomet's followers found the Koran lying all in fractions.
b. ? A paragraph or section (of a book). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > small division
parcela1398
passagec1550
fraction1625
pericopea1657
sectiuncle1838
1625 C. Burges New Discouery Personal Tithes 44 In the next Fraction after that branch of the Statute..it is said; Prouided alwaies [etc.].
5. Mathematics.
a. Arithmetic. A numerical quantity that is not an integer; one or more aliquot parts of a unit or whole number; an expression for a definite portion of a unit or magnitude.A common fraction (see also common fraction n. at common adj. and adv. Compounds 2) or vulgar fraction is one in which the numerator and denominator is represented by numbers placed the one above, the other below, a horizontal line. Sometimes fraction is used for ‘vulgar fraction’, or for a quantity expressed by means of a numerator and denominator; e.g. ‘the fraction 4/ 2 = 2’. For complex, compound, continued, decimal, proper and improper fractions, see those words.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > fraction > [noun]
fractionc1400
broken number1552
fracturea1690
fragmenta1690
mite1702
c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) Prol. 3 Smalest fraccions ne wol nat ben shewid in so smal an instrument.
1543 R. Record Ground of Artes ii. sig. T.vi I wyll enstruct you after the treatyse of fractions.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. iii. §6. 256 But the very minutes and lesser fractions were to bee obserued by him.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 393 A Fraction may be exprest..by the Adjective Neuter.
1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins 45 Pliny put a round number near the truth, rather than a fraction.
1811 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) I. 269 This place would suit you to a fraction.
1814 J. Playfair Outl. Nat. Philos. II. ii. i. 243 The deflection..if reduced to feet, comes out 16 and a small fraction.
1827 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) I. 86 The vulgar fraction may be reduced to a decimal, then joined to the integer, and the root of the whole extracted.
1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 30 The probability of an event is measured by the fraction which the number of favourable cases is of all that can happen.
1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 392 The Belgians too find the same result to a fraction.
1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xxviii. 68 The village is a fraction, but the city is an unit.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 11 The fraction which denotes the ratio of the two distances is sometimes termed the representative fraction.
b. Algebra. An expression analogous to an arithmetical vulgar fraction, in which the numerator and denominator are algebraical terms or expressions.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun] > expression
algebraism1753
expression1796
fraction1812
discriminant1851
transform1853
resolvent1859
1812 J. Playfair Outl. Nat. Philos. I. 37 This fraction is a maximum, when the denominator A + B + [etc.] is a minimum.
6. A portion of a section (sense 2e(b)) of land. U.S.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > portion or unit of
pounds worthOE
school land1466
shot1478
ground1548
officiary1594
canton1643
lotment1651
bovate1688
fraction1789
mahal1793
erf1812
fractional section1815
forty1845
tan1871
1789 in C. Cist Cincinnati in 1841 (1841) 209 The whole of the township and fraction to be surveyed.
1815 D. Drake Nat. & Statist. View Cincinnati vi. 202 The principal wall or embankment, encloses an entire block of lots and some fractions.
1837 J. M. Peck Gazetteer Illinois i. 77 Fractions are parts of quarter sections intersected by streams or confined claims.
1847 J. Burnet Notes Early Settlem. North-western Territory 47 Matthias Denman..had purchased the fraction of land on the bank of the Ohio, and the entire section adjoining it on the north.
1901 S. E. White Westerners xviii. 156 Thar is a lode..over on the J. G. fraction that's shore th' purtiest bit of quartz lead you ever see.
7. Any one of the portions, differing in physical or chemical properties, into which a mixture may be separated, esp. by physical methods.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > distillation > fractionation > fraction
fraction1857
1857 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 13 134 I selected the fraction boiling in the fifteenth rectification at 240°F. to make a preliminary experiment upon.
1873 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 45 129 In such a case each fraction of the distillate will have the same composition as every other fraction and as the original mixture.
1904 F. Soddy Radio-activity 17 If the active barium chloride was fractionally crystallised, the activity tended to concentrate in the least soluble fraction.
1913 A. R. Warnes Coal Tar Distill. 52 When it is not desired to recover the anthracene, the heavy creosote and anthracene oil fractions are sometimes not separated, but worked as one fraction.
1955 Sci. Amer. Aug. 92/3 Electrophoresis is the special name given to the technique of separating molecular mixtures into fractions.
1958 New Scientist 9 Jan. 12/1 The purification of these liquids gives rise to aromatic fractions suitable for use as gasoline components.
1960 L. Picken Organization of Cells v. 188 Five different particle fractions were..separated from the homogenate at five different speeds and times of centrifugation.
1971 Nature 13 Aug. 455/2 Textural variation depends on changes in the proportions of sand and clay with the silt fraction remaining fairly constant.
8. In Communist use: see quots. 19222, 1927. Also, a deviant or schismatic group. Also (all forms) transferred. Cf. fractional adj. 3.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > splinter group
cave1866
fraction1922
splinter group1935
splinter1948
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > Communist Party > within non-party organization
fraction1922
1922 Communist Party Great Brit.: Rep. Organisation ii. 25 Besides his area group, every member will have some special task. He may be on the Speakers' Group, or working in the Local Labour Party Fraction.
1922 Communist Party Great Brit.: Rep. Organisation ii. 26 A Fraction is a Party organisation inside a representative or delegate body. (It is also used for a grouping of all the Communists and their followers inside a trade union or similar organisation.)
1927 Communist Party Training (Communist Party Great Brit.) 117 A fraction is composed of all Party members inside any unit or representative committee of a non-party organisation, united for the purpose of conducting Party work in same.
1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) xiii. 262 In the fraction, I was given the assignment of recruiting Mulcahy to the Party.
1954 Encounter Feb. 48/2 Last came the rank and file, whose work consisted of making speeches, distributing leaflets, attending party and fraction meetings.
1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing xxiii. 255 It is essential to..discredit a person or fraction ‘in the eyes of the masses’ before he or they are liquidated.
1958 New Statesman 1 Feb. 136/2 The fact is that Conservatives, Liberals, Socialists and Roman Catholics all hold ‘fraction meetings’ and decide what their policy is to be in the trade unions.
1959 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties (ed. 2) i. iii. 174 The development of fractions is not a sign of the liberty of members..: rather does it point to differences of opinion between members of the ruling class.

Derivatives

ˈfraction v. to break into fractions or pieces.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > separate into constituents [verb (transitive)] > make into (small) pieces
offe?1440
fine1548
flake1632
fritter1780
fragmentize1815
fragment1818
macadamize1825
fraction1841
morselize1894
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 81 The Nation, fractioned and cut asunder by deserts.
ˈfractionism n. the views or policies of such a group.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > departure from party principles
deviationism1940
right deviationism1945
fractionalism1950
fractionism1952
splittism1962
1952 New Yorker 25 Oct. 106/2 Among Marty's other criminal fractionisms were that he thought American imperialism in France was of only secondary importance.
ˈfractionist n. a member or adherent of such a group.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > splinter group > member of
Adullamite1916
fractionist1949
1949 Times 10 Jan. 6/1 Other new words recently collected from this paper include fractionist (akin to deviationist).
ˈfractionlet n. a small fragment.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece > very small piece
pointc1300
smitc1330
tittlea1450
scraplet1519
jot1526
splinter1609
bitling1674
shredling1674
frustulum1700
rissom1808
smitch1822
fractionlet1830
scrapling1843
pick1866
parcel1873
scrappet1901
1830 T. Carlyle Jrnl. 9 Sept. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. iv. 88 Wrote a fractionlet of verse entitled ‘The Beetle’.
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