three-fourths
See also: three fourths
English
Alternative forms
Noun
- Three of four equal parts (3/4, ¾, 0.75).
- three-fourths of the population
- three-fourths majority
- Synonym: three-quarters
Usage notes
- In the British corpus, three-quarters is much more common than three-fourths; in the American corpus, three-quarters is also much more common after year 2000.[1]
Translations
3/4
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See also
- Thesaurus:fraction
- Appendix:English numerals
References
Further reading
- “three-fourths”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- "three-fourths" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
- “three-fourths”, in Wordnik.
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