Prince Karl is rolling in from the east; Lobkowitz (Prag now ended) is advancing from the northward, Khevenhuller from the Salzburg southern quarter: Is it in a sprinkle of disconnected fractions that you will wait Prince Karl?
Here's a micro-volt meter that registers fractionsof volts.
The louder the voice into the transmitter the more current--measured in fractions of amperes--passed through the spiral.
These various societies are fractions of the human species each one of them endowed with a unified organization.
If social groups are then fractions of the human species, they must possess the same fundamental traits of the human species, which means that they must be considered as a succession of generations and not as a collection of individuals.
It is irrelevant in this connection to determine whether social groups, considered as fractions of the species, constitute organisms.
These posts contain only fractionsof regiments, averaging less than 700 men each.
Such an army may, by a well-combined strategic plan, unite upon and overwhelm successively the fractions of the adversary's forces.
It is also important that the extent of the strategic front should not be so great as to prevent the prompt concentration of the fractions of the army upon an advantageous point.
In imparting to the troops the greatest possible mobility and activity, so as, by their successive employment upon points where it may be important to act, to bring superior force to bear upon fractions of the hostile army.
He who awaits the attack is everywhere anticipated: the enemy fall with large force upon fractions of his force: he neither knows where his adversary proposes to attack him nor in what manner to repel him.
The essential conditions for every strategic position are that it should be more compact than the forces opposed, that all fractions of the army should have sure and easy means of concentrating, free from the intervention of the enemy.
We give the same name of division to masses of four regiments and to fractions of a battalion of two companies each,--which is absurd.
The French Revolution introduced the system of divisions, which broke up the excessive compactness of the old formation, and brought upon the field fractions capable of independent movement on any kind of ground.
Indeed, all large detachments or fractions of an army may be considered as occupying strategic positions.
An undue number of lines divides the forces, and permits fractions to be overwhelmed by the enemy.
There are exactly as many fractions as whole numbers, although there are an infinite number of fractionsbetween any two whole numbers.
The percentage yields of furfuraldehyde obtained from these fractions were as follows: A, insoluble, 0.
The products were precipitated by water and purified by solution in acetone from which two fractions were recovered, the one being relatively insoluble in ethyl alcohol.
They are the thirteen and fourteen-lap tracks, which contain fractions that involve a division of inches and are so far improper.
He fought a series of actions with fractions against the enemy's masses, and finished by taking his defeated fragments into the Vicksburg trap.
That number placed below the line in vulgar fractions which shows into how many parts the integer or unit is divided.
A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.
A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly.
When Casimir Funk made his original studies of the chemical fractions of an alcohol extract of rice polishings he utilized a discovery of the Dutch chemist Eijkman.
One of the greatest difficulties still encountered in the study of chemical fractions is the delay in identification of the active portion.
In comparing the value of different chemical fractionsit probably gives a fair enough basis for evaluating their relative power but it is not entirely satisfactory as a quantitive measure of vitamine content.
The chemistry of the vitamine fractionsfrom yeast and rice polishings.
As a result the study of only a few fractions must extend over long periods of time with all the cumulation of difficulties in the way of change in material, etc.
After the fiftieth name the fractions were so small as to have comparatively little effect upon the total.
They say that thought begins and ends with the organization, and that the single individuals entering into the system, form no thought nor fractions of a thought.
The winner of the game deducts the score of the loser from his own (excluding fractions of a hundred), and the difference, with five hundred added for the game, is the number of points won.
Assuming that the rubicon is saved, the score of the loser is deducted from that of the winner, fractions of a hundred being disregarded in both cases.
Compound fraction, a fraction of a fraction; two or more fractions connected by of.
To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.
Defn: By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions.
Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers.
But what hints and fractions of feature we authentically have, ought to be given with exactitude, especially with brevity, and left to the ingenuous imagination of readers.
All I can do is, to set down what features of it have become indisputable; and leave them as detached traceries, as fractions of an outline, to coalesce into something of image where they can.
We might as well make an infinitesimal series of fractions or a perpetually recurring decimal the object of our worship.
This arises from the fact that a sum relatively high, which will appear immense, and will in consequence strike the imagination, has been substituted for the unperceived fractions of a farthing.
Wallis has done it very well; after stating very clearly that there are no proper numbers but integers he meets the objection, that fractions are called intermediate numbers.
The output of automobiles was to be measured not in hours but in the very fractions of minutes.
He pulls out the throttle ever and ever so little a way--a distance to be measured in inches and fractions of inches--and the limited is in motion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fractions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
