two-thirds
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]- Two of three equal parts (2/3, ⅔, 0.666...).
- Synonym: 2/3rds
- two-thirds majority
- two-thirds of the population
- 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railway and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709:
- [...] 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.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 186:
- Gilgamesh is himself a man, two-thirds god, one-third mortal.
- 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 123:
- [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.
Usage notes
[edit]- Hyphenated fraction two-thirds is much more common than two thirds[1][2] and is preferred by GPO manual.[3]
Translations
[edit]two of three equal parts
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ two-thirds,(two thirds*4) at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ two-thirds of,(two thirds of*4) at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
Further reading
[edit]- “two-thirds”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “two-thirds”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- "two-thirds" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
- Wikidata:⅔