two-thirds
noun1
Two of three equal parts (2/3, ⅔, 0.666...).
- Meronyms: one-third, third
- two-thirds majority
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- two-thirds of the population
- [...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.1960 December 23, “Talking of Trains: The railway and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709:
- Gilgamesh is himself a man, two-thirds god, one-third mortal.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 186:
- [B]ut easily two-thirds of the work we carried out in this exercise was the de-bogging of other vehicles around the original one.2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 123:
- Related terms
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