Synonym: division, part, portion, section, segment. Antonym: integer. Similar words: attraction, practitioner, interaction, action, reaction, take action, transaction, practice. Meaning: ['frækʃn] 
n. 1. a component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process 2. a small part or item forming a piece of a whole 3. the quotient of two rational numbers. v. perform a division.
n. 1. a component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process 2. a small part or item forming a piece of a whole 3. the quotient of two rational numbers. v. perform a division. 
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31 A second-hand car costs a fraction of a new one.
32 If a stranger stops you, just wind the window down a fraction.
33 A muscle tensed a fraction in his jaw.
34 Of those, only a fraction are granted relief.
35 The mean left ventricular ejection fraction was 46%.
36 But this fraction is the most creative,[http://sentencedict.com/fraction.html] he says.
37 Leave the inner tent door open a fraction, even if you don't have mesh.
38 As you can see from Table 16.2, they account for a tiny fraction of total assets.
39 A useful approach was proposed by Schulz who suggested that a cumulative mass fraction be plotted against the molar mass.
40 Last night was a light easterly - might have checked the ebb a fraction, but not enough to matter.
41 Import prices rise and since imports are a large fraction of consumption, the consumer price index rises right along with imports.
42 Down there, it encountered the large fraction of the planet that is still molten, and began to crowd it.
43 The demand for such babies is so high that some adoption agencies have difficulty meeting even a fraction of it.
44 The bags are required by law to inflate in a fraction of a second, fueled by hot gases.
45 By 1920 the fraction of eighteen-to twenty-one-year-olds in college had doubled to 8 percent.
46 On impulse she hurried down the corridor to her daughter's room and carefully opened the door a fraction.
47 Immunohistochemical studies have shown that the IgG cell fraction is increased up to 30 times, depending on the severity of the lesion.
48 Contractor recordable and lost time accident rates were also a fraction of the industry average.
49 To undertake such intervention, governments needed a degree of independence or autonomy from any particular branch or fraction of capital.
50 A mere fraction of the population shared in the cultural revolution.
51 Forty thousand cases of assault against children were reported last year, believed to be only a fraction of the real total.
52 But over a substantial fraction of the wake width, turbulent and non-turbulent motion alternate.
53 Even fraction of a second, the optical density of the nucleus is measured and stored in the computer's memory.
54 Otherwise a decreasing fraction of the flow would be turbulent, and, for example, self-preservation could not occur.
55 Raise the leg a fraction higher and repeat this tiny movement 15 times, holding each raise for 1 second.
56 Its area is a tiny fraction of that occupied by the 21 hostile Arab states.
57 It is good to recall that astronomers cover only a tiny fraction of the sky at any time.
58 The binding is reversible so that factors that decrease the protein concentration will increase the ionized fraction of calcium in the blood.
59 For a fraction of an instant I thought I had ceased to exist myself.
60 Each has gone beyond serving a few dozen students, although they still reach only a fraction of the total student population.
More similar words: attraction, practitioner, interaction, action, reaction, take action, transaction, practice, practical, in practice, attractive, practically, out of practice, auction, fiction, section, function, reduction, election, sanction, infection, selection, objection, protection, connection, projection, production, collection, inspection, prediction.