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numerator

[noo-muh-ray-ter, nyoo-] / ˈnu məˌreɪ tər, ˈnju- /
NOUN
common denominator
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This helps the numerator by adding newly converted revenue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Staff excluded from the efficacy calculation patients who had RP1 injected in all of their tumors, but only from the numerator and not denominator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Their concern, however, stems from the level of the numerator rather than the sustainability of the denominator.

From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025

Note that the plunging ratio tells us nothing about the U.S. economy, since the economy affects both the numerator and the denominator of the ratio and therefore has no net effect on its level.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025

All of these expressions, but especially 0/0, could take on any value you desire them to have, depending on the functions you put in the numerator and denominator.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

But you have so many numerators in this case that need to be overhauled, need to be fixed.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022

Simplify only after you have combined the numerators.

From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020

The numerators or denominators of some fractions contain fractions themselves.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020

We introduced rational numbers, which are just fractions where the numerators and denominators are integers, and the denominator is not zero.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020

Now for the interpolation of the rest, I considered that the denominators 1, 3, 5, &c., were in arithmetical progression; and that therefore only the numerical coefficients of the numerators were to be investigated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various


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