How to Use denominator in a Sentence

denominator

noun

• In the fraction 2/3 the numerator is 2 and the denominator is 3.
• When the denominator goes up, the value of the stock goes down.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 14 May 2022
• But the Facebook top 10 list gives no sense of the denominator.
  — Siva Vaidhyanathan, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2021
• The ball is the only common denominator with all the shots.
  — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 18 Jan. 2017
• For too long, the system has been pulled down to the lowest denominator.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2017
• A common denominator in the three hubs is that countries on these coasts have failed to make the areas safe.
  — Francois Vreÿ, CNN, 30 May 2017
• The question is: With a denominator that big, what’s the role of charity?
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2017
• As the mass of block B goes to zero, the denominator goes to a very large number which makes the tension almost zero.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 25 Jan. 2021
• On the right side of the equation, F-pull is in Newtons and the denominator is unitless (mass divided by mass).
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 25 Jan. 2021
• That means that the denominator of that fraction gets smaller and makes the energy very large.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 2 Apr. 2021
• The common denominator is that kids from this state wanted to be Buckeyes, and came here with a purpose.
  — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 19 June 2017
• There is also the denominator of returns: how much equity the firm has to hold.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
• As long as the angle is between 0 and 90 degrees, the stuff in the denominator will be bigger than just μs such that the force will be smaller at an angle.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 11 June 2018
• The one in the magnetic field equation is in the numerator, and there was already one in the denominator.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• Curtis Taylor's first four starts for the Cougars were losses, and the common denominator was walks.
  — Paul Johnson, Naperville Sun, 18 June 2017
• As the workforce grows, the denominator increases so that the ratio goes down.
  — Liya Palagashvili, WSJ, 12 June 2018
• Accept that the common denominator to all of life’s problems is you.
  — AJC.com, 27 Dec. 2016
• About 40% of the African population is below 15, so the change in denominator will lead to a large jump in the coverage figures.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 28 Dec. 2022
• In this case, each doll is an integer added to a fraction whose denominator is the next smallest figurine in the sequence.
  — Amory Tillinghast-Raby, Scientific American, 2 June 2023
• But once again, it's swelled by a denominator of super-pumped profits.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 June 2022
• The denominator for the players’ rate is the total number of players tested.
  — Wire Services, Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
• That comes out to a debt-to-GDP ratio where the numerator is growing faster and the denominator is growing slower.
  — The Editors, National Review, 24 Oct. 2023
• The one common denominator in her order at each restaurant is poultry—but don’t even think about going for the breaded stuff.
  — Shay Spence, PEOPLE.com, 22 May 2017
• Think of the internal content as the numerator of the equation, and the market context as the denominator.
  — Isaac Cheifetz, Star Tribune, 21 Nov. 2020
• The Point: This is the sort of gross, lowest-common-denominator politics that drive people away from public life.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
• Planting under big trees While the sun or shade needs of your hydrangea will vary based on its type, one denominator remains pretty much the same: Don’t plant under big trees.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 May 2020
• Specifically, the error of each fraction is no more than 1 divided by the square of the denominator.
  — Wired, 18 Aug. 2019
• The wants are the denominator of the satisfaction equation.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2022
• As capacity is reduced, the denominator (seats x miles) both go down because the airline is flying fewer flights.
  — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 23 May 2022
• To succinctly quantify the diminishing probability as the size of the grid grows, researchers use the exponent from the denominator, 5/48, which is known as the one-arm exponent.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024