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Definition of One-seventh
1. Noun. One part in seven equal parts.
Lexicographical Neighbors of One-seventh
Literary usage of One-seventh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"... and that two Of the heirs, Mem Crump and Mary E. Kesler, each owned one-seventh,
their original shares. But RT Crump claimed to own a third seventh, ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"... a 9-inch object- glass when within half a second of each other, and a 30-inch
object- glass when within about one seventh of a second of each other. ..."
3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1911)
"A clause in a will directed the executor in substance to carry on the testator's
business as the testator previously had carried it on, that one seventh of ..."
4. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1890)
"... was successfully performed, and two stones, one-half and one-seventh inches in
... oneseventh ..."
5. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year by New-York Historical Society (1906)
"... and Elizabeth Beekman, their heirs forever, one full equal one seventh part,
to be equally divided among them share and share alike; to my sister, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1858)
"It will not be deviating far from the truth to state, that it causes about
one-sixth or one-seventh of all the deaths north of the tropics. ..."
7. The Works of Thomas Shepard: First Pastor of the First Church, Cambridge by Thomas Shepard (1853)
"... every other country is not; and therefore there is no reason that all men
should give God one seventh year> as they are to give him one seventh day. ..."
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