Meaning of two-thirds | Babel Free

Definitions

Two of three equal parts (2/3, ⅔, 0.666...).

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Meronyms: one-third, third”

“two-thirds majority”

“two-thirds of the population”

“[...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.”

“Gilgamesh is himself a man, two-thirds god, one-third mortal.”

“[B]ut easily two-thirds of the work we carried out in this exercise was the de-bogging of other vehicles around the original one.”

“Almost two-thirds of American consumers have at least one unspent gift card tucked away in a drawer, pocket, wallet or purse.”

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