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numerator

[noo-muh-rey-ter, nyoo-] / ˈnu məˌreɪ tər, ˈnju- /
NOUN
common denominator
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This helps the numerator by adding newly converted revenue.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

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

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

The numerators are all 1 and the denominators are powers of 3 The general term of the sequence:

From Textbooks Sep. 23, 2020

The numerators or denominators of some fractions contain fractions themselves.

From Textbooks Apr. 22, 2020

Subtract the numerators and place the difference over the common denominator.

From Textbooks Apr. 22, 2020

Any two fractions will do if the denominator equals the sum of the two numerators.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney




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