fraction
Fraction (from Latin fractio , fraction [part]) stands for:
- an association of MPs, (mostly from one party) see parliamentary group (politics)
- generally a delimited part of a settlement with its own name, see district
- in Tyrol and Vorarlberg a part of the municipality, see locality
- Community structure in Italy, frazione, see Fraction and Circoscrizione (Italy)
- a former municipality in Davos, Switzerland, the parliamentary group
- mathematically a proportion, see fraction calculation
- a subgroup of substances in a disperse mixture, see fraction (chemistry)
- Especially in the petrochemical industry, distillation products in certain temperature ranges, see fractional distillation
- The faction , rock band
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Wiktionary: Fraction - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations