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Definition of One-eighth
1. Noun. One part in eight equal parts.
Lexicographical Neighbors of One-eighth
Literary usage of One-eighth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"To pay all expenses for and on ' behalf of Edward R. Sumner upon one undivided
one eighth part of said mine owned bv Edward H. Sumner which has accrued ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"... one-eighth part to the defendant Floride C. Barron, and one-eighth part to
each of his other children living at the time of the testator's death, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1867)
"half the kidney one-eighth to one-fourth of a grain; all the urine one- eighth ;
half the blood fluoresced one-sixty-fourth to ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"A branch of one and one-eighth inch in diameter showed 100 rings of growth, and
an average of six such branches gave 72 years per inch of diameter. ..."
5. Masterpieces of Murder: An Edmund Pearson True Crime Reader by Edmund Lester Pearson, Gerald Gross (1876)
"Tip of upper mandible to end of claw on middle toe four and one-eighth ine ...
Inside toe, two eighths of an inch; its claw, one-eighth half-eighth inch. ..."
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