fraction
Example Sentences
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The number likely refers to Ray J’s heart’s ejection fraction, which measures the volume of blood coming out of the heart’s left ventricle or being drawn into the right ventricle when the heart beats.
From Los Angeles Times
People with the "pancreatic-predominant" pattern showed a proton density fat fraction -- an MRI marker that provides a precise estimation of fat concentration in tissue -- of about 30 percent in the pancreas.
From Science Daily
“You’ve been here a fraction of the time everyone else has, but you’ve gotten pretty much double the amount of litter off the streets. Pretty rad, Fern.”
From Literature
The 2% you suggest is a modest rate — a fraction of most personal-loan rates and below the current rate of inflation.
From MarketWatch
It represents just a fraction of the Le Carré archive held at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, of which the Weston is a part, a collection comprising 1,237 boxes.
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