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  • 21small investor — An individual person investing in small quantities of stock or bonds. This group of investors makes up a minimal fraction of total stock ownership. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * small investor small investor ➔ investor * * * small investor …

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  • 22small — adj. VERBS ▪ be, feel, look, seem ▪ become, get, grow ▪ The gap seemed to be getting smaller …

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  • 23fraction — [ frakʃ(ə)n] noun 1》 a numerical quantity that is not a whole number (e.g. 1/2, 0.5). 2》 a small or tiny part, amount, or proportion.     ↘a dissenting group within a larger one. 3》 Chemistry each of the portions into which a mixture may be… …

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  • 24fraction — [ˈfrækʃ(ə)n] noun [C] 1) a small part or amount of something His investment is now worth only a fraction of its original value.[/ex] 2) a part of a whole number, for example ½ or ¾ fractional adj …

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  • 25fraction — / frækʃən/ noun a very small amount ● Only a fraction of the new share issue was subscribed …

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  • 26fraction — n. 1 a numerical quantity that is not a whole number (e.g. 1/2, 0.5). 2 a small, esp. very small, part, piece, or amount. 3 a portion of a mixture separated by distillation etc. 4 Polit. any organized dissentient group, esp. a group of communists …

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  • 27small scale — A map having a scale of 1:1,000,000 or smaller. In aerial photographs, its RF (representative fraction) is between 125,000 and 149,999 …

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  • 28Egyptian fraction — An Egyptian fraction is the sum of distinct unit fractions, such as frac{1}{2}+ frac{1}{3}+ frac{1}{16}. That is, each fraction in the expression has a numerator equal to 1 and a denominator that is a positive integer, and all the denominators… …

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  • 29Generalized continued fraction — In analysis, a generalized continued fraction is a generalization of regular continued fractions in canonical form in which the partial numerators and the partial denominators can assume arbitrary real or complex values.A generalized continued… …

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  • 30Continued fraction — Finite continued fraction, where a0 is an integer, any other ai are positive integers, and n is a non negative integer. In mathematics, a continued fraction is an expression obtained through an iterative process of representing a number as the… …

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