a feature that everyone or everything in a particular group has
The commondenominator in all his novels is the use of the supernatural.
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mathsa number that can be divided exactly by all the denominators (=numbers written below the line) in a particular group of fractions. The common denominator of 1/4, 1/3, and 1/6 is 12.
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billionth
common denominator
common denominator
noun countable
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least common denominatornoun
lowest common denominatornoun
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common denominator
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common denominators
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1
mathsa number that can be divided exactly by all the denominators (=numbers written below the line) in a particular group of fractions. The common denominator of 1/4, 1/3, and 1/6 is 12.
Synonyms and related words
Fractions and types of fraction
and
billionth
common denominator
2
a feature that everyone or everything in a particular group has
The commondenominator in all his novels is the use of the supernatural.