numerator
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Staff excluded from the efficacy calculation patients who had RP1 injected in all of their tumors, but only from the numerator and not denominator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Their concern, however, stems from the level of the numerator rather than the sustainability of the denominator.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
Note that the plunging ratio tells us nothing about the U.S. economy, since the economy affects both the numerator and the denominator of the ratio and therefore has no net effect on its level.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025
A rational exponent is a fraction: the denominator of the fraction is the root or index number and the numerator is the power to which it is raised.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
All of these expressions, but especially 0/0, could take on any value you desire them to have, depending on the functions you put in the numerator and denominator.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
But you have so many numerators in this case that need to be overhauled, need to be fixed.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022
We’ll use the methods we have learned to factor the polynomials in the numerators and denominators in the following examples.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
To multiply fractions, multiply the numerators and multiply the denominators.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
We will use this property to simplify rational expressions that contain opposites in their numerators and denominators.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
Hence, so long as the denominator remains unaltered, we can deal with p/n, q/n, r/n, ... exactly as if they were numbers, any operations being performed on the numerators.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing numerator
Arithmetic
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Number and Operations: Fractions
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Numbers and Arithmetic
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