fractional number
English
Noun
fractional number (plural fractional numbers)
- (grammar) A word that expresses one or more of a specific number of parts of a whole.
- In English, most ordinal numbers double as fractional numbers — "third", "fourth", and so on — with the exception of "second", whose corresponding fractional number is "half".
- (arithmetic) A fraction, such as or .
Synonyms
- (grammar): fractional, fractional numeral
- (arithmetic): fraction
Coordinate terms
- (grammar): cardinal number, ordinal number, distributive number, multiplier