one-eighth

See also: one eighth

English

Alternative forms

• one eighth

Noun

one-eighth (uncountable)

1. The fraction that represents the real number 0.125; ⅛.
   • 2023 May 16, Maud Newton, “Blending Native History and Myth Into Heartfelt Memoir”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 18 June 2023:

     Blood quantum rules — which began as a colonizer practice designed to limit tribal citizenship but were later adopted by some Native peoples as a means of preserving cultural identity — require the tribe’s members to be at least one-eighth S’Klallam and to have at least one full-blooded S’Klallam ancestor.

Translations

1/8

Bulgarian: една (bg) (edna) осма (bg) (osma) Finnish: kahdeksasosa (fi), yksi kahdeksasosa Indonesian: seperdelapan Swahili: thumuni (sw)

See also

• Thesaurus:fraction
• Appendix:English numerals