one-fourth

See also: one fourth

English

Alternative forms

• one fourth

Numeral

one-fourth (¹⁄₄)

1. One of four equal parts (1/4, ¼, 0.25).

   Synonym: one-quarter

   • 2018 September 30, Julia Carpenter and Jackie Wattles, “California has a new law: No more all-male boards”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     California state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson told The Wall Street Journal last month when the legislation passed that “one-fourth of California’s publicly traded companies still do not have a single woman on their board, despite numerous independent studies that show companies with women on their board are more profitable and productive.”

Translations

¼ — see also quarter

• Finnish: neljäsosa (fi)
• Malayalam: കാൽ (ml) (kāl)
• Polish: jedna czwarta
• Swahili: robo (sw)

Noun

one-fourth (uncountable)

1. (Philippines) Ellipsis of one-fourth pad paper (“a one-fourth of standard size sheet of pad paper typically used by students for school quizzes”).

Further reading

• “one-fourth”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• "one-fourth" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
• “one-fourth”, in Wordnik.
• one-fourth of, one fourth of at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.