denominator

An improper fraction is a fraction whose numerator is larger than its denominator, and whose value is greater than a whole unit.

To appeal to a much wider consumer base, beer--like other products--was retooled to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Brewing history is littered with the losers of this period.

416 illustrates the calculation and how an adjustment to the numerator and/or denominator ensures the taxpayer does not receive an FTC greater than the Federal income taxes paid on the foreign-source income.

The problems come when one tries to attach specific numbers to the possibilities: the vast majority of those in the "unemployed" category are in both the numerator and denominator; only a small part of the employed would be looking for another job--they have strong comparative advantages in what they are doing now.

After learning the above LAP mnemonic, the students practiced pointing to the bottom number or denominator of a given fraction.

The common denominator I regret to state is that the North Wales Police have not been able to bring the culprits to justice (unless there have been announcements in the Press contrary that I have missed).

The problem with batting average, though, is that the denominator, official at-bats, excludes walks, hit-by-pitch situations and sacrifice hits.

He spoke of the International Accounting Standards (IAS) to take effect beginning in January 2005, saying, "IAS are a fact, and we are going to live with convergence [with the U.S.]." He noted that the process itself is "raising all the posts [by] trying to bring all up to a higher standard [rather than] searching for a common denominator."

In designing a system of any type, where there is a range of requirements that need to be met to satisfy a number of diverse customers, it always helps to start at the least common denominator and then add where necessary to satisfy the more demanding requirements.

However, flatness is not the only common denominator of fine and applied, of painterly and photographic; just as salient is Overby's almost obscenely lush treatment of lipsticks, facial masks, and ointments as tautological figures for paint.

Nevertheless,, the specified method of dropping the certainty stratum and strata with high sampling rates from the denominator of the calculation does not represent good statistics and may even provide an incentive for bad sample design by discouraging some of the best methods of control of sampling variability, namely larger certainty and high sampling rate strata.

The leader must be one with the resources to act swiftly to find a common Arab denominator so that a collective Arab leadership can come up with an offer for the stabilisation of Iraq, an offer which the Bush administration cannot refuse in this year of US presidential elections.