дробь

Russian

дробь • (drobʹ) f inan (genitive дро́би, nominative plural дро́би, genitive plural дробе́й)

(mathematics) fraction, broken number
- 1959, Александр Солженицын [Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn], chapter 2, in Матрёнин двор; English translation from Michael Glenny, transl., Matryona’s House, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971:
  Он сиде́л в 8-м кла́ссе, одна́ко не владе́л дробя́ми и не различа́л, каки́е быва́ют треуго́льники.
  On sidél v 8-m klásse, odnáko ne vladél drobjámi i ne različál, kakíje byvájut treugólʹniki.
  Although he was in class 8, he could not do fractions and he was unable to tell one sort of triangle from another.
(weaponry) small-shot, pellets, shot
(music) drum roll
(symbol) slash

Declension of дробь (inan fem-form 3rd-decl accent-e)