Definition & Meaning | English word ONE-THIRD

Definitions of ONE-THIRD

1. One of three equals parts (1/3, ⅓, 0.333…).

Examples of Using ONE-THIRD in a Sentence

• Its drainage basin comprises one-fifth of the land area of China, and is home to nearly one-third of the country's population.
• This is one-third less than the forest cover before the expansion of agriculture, with half of that loss occurring in the last century.
• Soviet assistance, at its height one-third of Gross domestic product (GDP), disappeared almost overnight in 1990–91, in the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
• Up to one-third of people with migraine experience aura, a premonitory period of sensory disturbance widely accepted to be caused by cortical spreading depression at the onset of a migraine attack.
• Plains are one of the major landforms on earth, being present on all continents and covering more than one-third of the world's land area.
• It is located almost due south of the Hawaiian Islands, roughly one-third of the way between Hawaii and American Samoa.
• It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles.
• The union's membership peaked at 10 million in September 1981, representing one-third of the country's working-age population.
• The bombing killed 168 people, including 19 children, injured 684, and destroyed one-third of the Alfred P.
• One-third of the region is covered by the Palatinate Forest (Pfälzerwald), including the Palatinate Forest Nature Park popular with hikers.
• The Carpathians provide habitat for the largest European populations of brown bears, wolves, chamois, and lynxes, with the highest concentration in Romania, as well as over one-third of all European plant species.
• Most of the artificial objects in outer space are in LEO, peaking in number at an altitude around , while the farthest in LEO, before medium Earth orbit (MEO), have an altitude more than about one-third of the radius of Earth (or about 2000 kilometers), roughly at the beginning of the inner Van Allen radiation belt.
• Tricon container, an intermodal shipping container one-third the size of a standard 20-foot container.
• The municipality of Taipei is home to an estimated population of 2,494,813 (March 2023), forming the core part of the Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area, also known as "Greater Taipei", which includes the nearby cities of New Taipei and Keelung with a population of 7,047,559, the 40th most-populous urban area in the world—roughly one-third of Taiwanese citizens live in the metro areas.
• Susceptibility, however, is variable, with about one-third of the population being susceptible while the other people are affected only under very extreme conditions.
• About two-thirds of the population lives on New Providence Island (the location of Nassau), and about half of the remaining one-third lives on Grand Bahama (the location of Freeport).
• population to continue its rapid increase, with the foreign-born population doubling from almost 20 million in 1990 to over 45 million in 2015, representing one-third of the population increase.
• When he came to power, France faced several disasters: the Black Death, which killed nearly one-third to one-half of its population; popular revolts known as Jacqueries; free companies (Grandes Compagnies) of routiers who plundered the country; and English aggression that resulted in catastrophic military losses, including the Battle of Poitiers of 1356, in which John was captured.
• Aegimius asked Heracles for help in a war against the Lapiths and, in gratitude, offered him one-third of his kingdom.
• The flag of the Netherlands Antilles was white, with a horizontal blue stripe in the center, one-third of the flag's hoist, superimposed on a vertical red stripe of the same width, also centered; six white, five-pointed stars are arranged in a hexagon pattern in the center of the blue band, their points up.
• Between 1999 and 2005, he was one-third of the infrequent, live-only ensemble the Three Terrors, with 69 Love Songss Dudley Klute and LD Beghtol.
• Less than one-third of the county was developed for cotton plantations, which were worked by enslaved African-Americans brought south by northern businessmen interested in cheap cotton.
• To the north and just over 500 metres above sea level, the Bourbonnais Bocage occupies one-third of the department, with two parts: the centre and the west (for the part between the Val de Cher and western boundaries of the territory).
• Over one-third of its total length is within the state of Texas, where the freeway spans the state at its widest breadth.
• Although Lyndon Johnson did get within eighteen votes of Barry Goldwater, no Democrat since has reached one-third of the county's vote.

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