He did it in only a fraction of a second.
Source: tatoeba (288457)
Fraction
//ˈfɹæk.ʃən//
Synonyms for "fraction" (93 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (46)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
14 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
43 entriesShowing 16 of 43 words.
derived
67 entriesShowing 16 of 67 words.
etymologically related_to
3 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
4 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
162 translations across 72 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- thyesë noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- κλάσμα noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- μόριον noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Arabic
3 entries- قِطْعَة noun (part of a whole)
- كَسْر noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- كُسُور noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Armenian
1 entries- կոտորակ noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kəsr noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Bashkir
1 entries- кәсер noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Belarusian
2 entries- дроб noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- ча́стка noun (part of a whole)
Bulgarian
4 entries- дроб noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- фра́кция noun (chemistry: component separated by fractionation)
- част noun (part of a whole)
- частица noun (part of a whole)
Burmese
1 entries- အပိုင်းဂဏန်း noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Catalan
2 entries- fracció noun (part of a whole)
- fracció noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 分數 /分数 noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- 部分 noun (part of a whole)
Czech
3 entries- lámání chleba noun (eucharistic service: breaking of the host)
- zlomek noun (part of a whole)
- zlomek noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Danish
2 entries- brøk noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- brøkdel noun (part of a whole)
Dutch
2 entries- breuk noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- fractie noun (part of a whole)
Esperanto
2 entries- frakcio noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- ono noun (part of a whole)
Estonian
3 entries- murd noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- murdosa noun (part of a whole)
- segaarv noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Finnish
4 entries- jae noun (chemistry: component separated by fractionation)
- murtaminen noun (eucharistic service: breaking of the host)
- murto-osa noun (part of a whole)
- murtoluku noun (arithmetic: ratio)
French
2 entries- fraction noun (part of a whole)
- fraction noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Friulian
2 entries- frazion noun (part of a whole)
- frazion noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Georgian
2 entries- ფრაქცია noun (chemistry: component separated by fractionation)
- წილადი noun (arithmetic: ratio)
German
3 entries- Brotbrechen noun (eucharistic service: breaking of the host)
- Bruch noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- Bruchteil noun (part of a whole)
Greek
1 entries- κλάσμα noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Greenlandic
1 entries- brøki noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Hebrew
4 entries- חלק noun (part of a whole)
- יחס noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- מִקְטָע noun (chemistry: component separated by fractionation)
- שבר noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Hindi
2 entries- अंश noun (part of a whole)
- भिन्न noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Hungarian
3 entries- töredék noun (part of a whole)
- tört noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- törtszám noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Icelandic
1 entries- brot noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Indonesian
1 entries- pecahan noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Irish
2 entries- codán noun (part of a whole)
- codán noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Italian
2 entries- frazione noun (part of a whole)
- frazione noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Japanese
2 entries- 分数 noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- 断片 noun (part of a whole)
Kazakh
1 entries- бөлшек noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Khmer
2 entries- ប្រភាគ noun (part of a whole)
- ប្រភាគ noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Korean
1 entries- 분수 noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- бөлчөк noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Lao
2 entries- ເສດສ່ວນ noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- ແຕ່ສ່ວນຫນຶ່ງ noun (part of a whole)
Latin
1 entries- fractiō noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Latvian
2 entries- daļskaitlis noun (part of a whole)
- daļskaitlis noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Lithuanian
1 entries- trupmena noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Macedonian
3 entries- дел noun (part of a whole)
- делче noun (part of a whole)
- дропка noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Malay
1 entries- pecahan noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Malayalam
2 entries- ഭിന്നം noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- ഭിന്നസംഖ്യ noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Marathi
2 entries- अपूर्णांक noun (part of a whole)
- गुणोत्तर noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Mongolian
1 entries- бутархай тоо noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Māori
2 entries- hautanga noun (part of a whole)
- hautau noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Norwegian
3 entries- andel noun (part of a whole)
- brøk noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- brøkdel noun (part of a whole)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- brøk noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- fraksjon noun (chemistry: component separated by fractionation)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- fraksjon noun (chemistry: component separated by fractionation)
Persian
2 entries- برخه noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- کسر noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Piedmontese
2 entries- frassion noun (part of a whole)
- frassion noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Bruchdeel noun (part of a whole)
Polish
4 entries- cząstka noun (part of a whole)
- frakcja noun (chemistry: component separated by fractionation)
- ułamek noun (part of a whole)
- ułamek noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Portuguese
4 entries- fracção noun (part of a whole)
- fracção noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- fração noun (part of a whole)
- fração noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Romanian
3 entries- fracție noun (part of a whole)
- fracție noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- fracțiune noun (chemistry: component separated by fractionation)
Russian
4 entries- дробь noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- фра́кция noun (chemistry: component separated by fractionation)
- части́ца noun (part of a whole)
- часть noun (part of a whole)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- bloigh noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- bìdeag noun (part of a whole)
- criomag noun (part of a whole)
- mìr noun (part of a whole)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dȉo noun (part of a whole)
- rázlomak noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- òdsječak noun (part of a whole)
- ра́зломак noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Slovak
1 entries- zlomok noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Slovene
1 entries- ulomek noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Spanish
3 entries- fracción noun (part of a whole)
- fracción noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- quebrado noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Swedish
2 entries- bråk noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- bråkdel noun (part of a whole)
Tagalog
4 entries- bahagi noun (part of a whole)
- hatimbilang noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- parte noun (part of a whole)
- praksiyon noun (part of a whole)
Tajik
1 entries- каср noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Thai
1 entries- เศษส่วน noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Tibetan
4 entries- གྲངས་ཆ noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- ཆ་ཤས noun (part of a whole)
- ཆ་ཤས noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- ཟུར་ཆ noun (part of a whole)
Turkish
4 entries- bölüm noun (part of a whole)
- fraksiyon noun (part of a whole)
- kesir noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- kısım noun (part of a whole)
Ukrainian
2 entries- дріб noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- части́на noun (part of a whole)
Urdu
1 entries- کسر noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Uyghur
1 entries- كەسىر noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Uzbek
1 entries- kasr noun (arithmetic: ratio)
Vietnamese
3 entries- phân số noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- phần noun (part of a whole)
- tỷ lệ noun (part of a whole)
Welsh
3 entries- ffracsiwn noun (arithmetic: ratio)
- toriad noun (part of a whole)
- toriad noun (eucharistic service: breaking of the host)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The weight of the world is a dangerous thing to try to bear. Take only a small fraction, and the rest of it will soon follow - crushing you.
Source: tatoeba (790779)
Time is a certain fraction of eternity.
Source: tatoeba (868238)
Everybody always knows when the politicians do something wrong and how they should do it better, but only a tiny fraction of the population is ready to commit themselves to politics.
Source: tatoeba (952123)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.