Meaning of two-fifths | Babel Free

Definitions

Two of five equal parts (2/5, ⅖, 0.4).

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“It provides for the sale of four-fifths of certain land, while the mortgagor owned only two-fifths, and the decree was so drawn as to lead to an inference that the intention was that a two-fifths interest belonging to the plaintiff should be sold in connection with the mortgagor's interest.”

“If only an emulsion be required, a solution of rubber in benzine or other hydrocarbon, to which a small portion of alcohol has been added, is mixed by vigorous agitation with a two-fifths saturated solution of borax previously heated to about 120° to 140° Fahr., and the agitation must be continued—preferably by mechanical means, but not of too violent a character—until the mixture has cooled down to the temperature of the air, or nearly so.”

“A business buyer that bought a government property in 1960, for instance, would have paid about three-fifths (60.1 percent) of the price of the property, receiving about a two-fifths (39.9 percent) inflation windfall, instead of 33.6 and 66.4 percent, respectively, as was the case when purchased in 1953.”

“The company has calculated that, in some states, this reduction could impact more than two-fifths of its ABA therapy provider groups in network and up to 19% of its patients in therapy.”

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