fractionally

fractional | Business English

fractional
adjective
/ˈfrækʃənəl/ukus
very small:
However, the stock only suffered a fractional loss that day.
[ before noun ]
forming only a part of something:
Shareholders are entitled to a fractional vote.

Examples of fractional

fractional
To explain the analysis, we redefine the star process to include fractional times.
Unfortunately this equation now requires the manipulation of fractional powers of the power series.
On each of them they are fractional-linear with exponentially close parameters.
We may assume without loss of generality that is not a fixed point by conjugating, if necessary, by an appropriate linear fractional map.
In the last row of the table, the fractional inactivity time is calculated from the duration of the assignment.
The design fluency is dependent on the fractional inactivity time, which is a relative measure of inactivity to activity.
However, there is some variation in the more mafic samples that does not appear to be due primarily to fractional crystallization.
The original magma must be heterogeneous or have experienced fractional crystallization or contamination.
The intra-suite elemental variations can be best explained by fractional crystallization for reasons presented below.
He also suggested that the more acidic varieties were derived from this basaltic melt via fractional crystallization.
Relaxing this assumption as described above to allow for the possibility of fractional cointegration is a natural extension of this methodology.
The article concludes by suggesting that individual-level heterogeneity is a likely source of the observed aggregate-level fractional integration in governing party support and its determinants.
Splitting the unit delay - tools for fractional delay filter design.
When researchers conduct future studies of the dynamics of party support, fractional (co)integration methods will prove helpful.
In models, the number of new infections can be fractional.
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