Amount vs Fraction - What's the difference?
amount | fraction | Related terms |
The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
A quantity or volume.
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, title= The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
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To total or evaluate.
To be the same as or equivalent to.
(obsolete) To go up; to ascend.
* Spenser
A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.
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A ratio of two numbers, the numerator and the denominator, usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar.
(chemistry) A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation.
In a eucharistic service, the breaking of the .
A small amount.
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, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
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, title= The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.
* Foxe
As nouns the difference between amount and fraction
is that amount is the total, aggregate or sum of material not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English while fraction is a part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.As verbs the difference between amount and fraction
is that amount is to total or evaluate while fraction is to divide or break into fractions.amount
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(Quantity)Noun
(en noun)How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.
- The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.
Derived terms
* principal amount * notional amountVerb
(en verb)- It amounts to three dollars and change.
- He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
- His response amounted to gross insubordination
- So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
Derived terms
* amount toSee also
* extent * magnitude * measurement * number * quantity * sizeExternal links
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* * 1000 English basic wordsfraction
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Noun
(en noun)- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
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- Neither can the natural body of Christ be subject to any fraction or breaking up.