fractional number
noun1
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A word that expresses one or more of a specific number of parts of a whole.
- In English, most ordinal numbers double as fractional numbers — "third", "fourth", and so on — with the exception of "second", whose corresponding fractional number is "half".
2
Arithmetic A fraction, such as 1/2 or 3/5.
- Related terms
- numeral
- Coordinate terms
- cardinal number, ordinal number, distributive number, multiplier