two-fifths

• two fifths

two-fifths (uncountable)

1. Two of five equal parts (2/5, ⅖, 0.4).
   • 1888, The Northwestern Reporter‎, volume 35, page 507:

     It provides for the sale of four-fifths of certain land, while the mortgagor owned only two-fifths, and the decree was so drawn as to lead to an inference that the intention was that a two-fifths interest belonging to the plaintiff should be sold in connection with the mortgagor's interest.

   • 1890 March 27, The American Stationer, volume 27, page 743:

     If only an emulsion be required, a solution of rubber in benzine or other hydrocarbon, to which a small portion of alcohol has been added, is mixed by vigorous agitation with a two-fifths saturated solution of borax previously heated to about 120° to 140° Fahr., and the agitation must be continued—preferably by mechanical means, but not of too violent a character—until the mixture has cooled down to the temperature of the air, or nearly so.

   • 2007, Young-Iob Chung, South Korea in the fast lane: economic development and capital formation, page 99:

     A business buyer that bought a government property in 1960, for instance, would have paid about three-fifths (60.1 percent) of the price of the property, receiving about a two-fifths (39.9 percent) inflation windfall, instead of 33.6 and 66.4 percent, respectively, as was the case when purchased in 1953.

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