Meaning & use

one-third

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The fraction equal to one part out of three equal parts of a whole, written as 1/3.

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Roughly one-third of the students chose Spanish as their second language.

The recipe calls for one-third of a cup of olive oil.

A note on using this word

One-third is written with a hyphen when used as a fraction before a noun, as in "one-third of the class," and is equivalent to about 33.3 percent.

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