denominator
Algebra
(noun)
The number or expression written below the line in a fraction (e.g., the 2 in
(noun)
The number or expression written below the line in a fraction (thus
(noun)
The number or expression written below the line in a fraction (thus 2 in ½).
(noun)
The number that sits below the fraction bar and represents the whole number.
Political Science
(noun)
The denominator refers to the number of voters eligible to vote.
Examples of denominator in the following topics:
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Religious Denominations
- Denominations often form slowly over time for many reasons.
- Consequently, different denominations may eventually form.
- In other cases, denominations form very rapidly, from a split or schism in an existing denomination, or if people share an experience of spiritual revival or spiritual awakening and subsequently choose to form a new denomination.
- In Christianity, non-denominational institutions or churches are those not formally aligned with an established denomination or those that remain otherwise officially autonomous.
- Some non-denominational churches explicitly reject the idea of a formalized denominational structure as a matter of principle, holding that each congregation is better off being autonomous.
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Fractions Involving Radicals
- Root rationalization is a process by which any roots in the denominator of an irrational fraction are eliminated.
- In mathematics, we are often given terms in the form of fractions with radicals in the numerator and/or denominator.
- When we are given expressions that involve radicals in the denominator, it makes it easier to evaluate the expression if we rewrite it in a way that the radical is no longer in the denominator.
- This process is called rationalizing the denominator.
- Let's look at an example to illustrate the process of rationalizing the denominator.
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Verbs derived from Nouns and Adjectives (Denominatives)
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Rational Algebraic Expressions
- The key is finding the least common denominator of the two rational expressions: the smallest multiple of both denominators.
- Then, you rewrite the two fractions using this denominator.
- If the two denominators are different, however, then you will need to use the above strategy of finding the least common denominator.
- Notice the factors in the denominators.
- Finding the prime factors of the denominators of two fractions enables us to find a common denominator.
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Fractions
- To add fractions that contain unlike denominators (e.g. quarters and thirds), it is necessary to first convert all amounts to like quantities, which means all the fractions must have a common denominator.
- One easy way to to find a denominator that will give you like quantities is simply to multiply together the two denominators of the fractions.
- However, sometimes there is a faster way—a smaller denominator, or a least common denominator—that can be used.
- For example, to add $\frac{3}{4}$ to $\frac{5}{12}$, the denominator 48 (the product of 4 and 12, the two denominators) can be used—but the smaller denominator 12 (the least common multiple of 4 and 12) may also be used.
- Find a common denominator, and change each fraction to an equivalent fraction using that common denominator.
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Complex Fractions
- A complex fraction is one in which the numerator, denominator, or both are fractions, which can contain variables, constants, or both.
- A complex fraction, also called a complex rational expression, is one in which the numerator, denominator, or both are fractions.
- Since there are no terms that can be combined or simplified in either the numerator or denominator, we'll skip to Step 3, dividing the numerator by the denominator:
- Let's move on to Step 2: combine the terms in the denominator.
- Let's turn to Step 3: divide the numerator by the denominator.
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Religion
- Methodists and Lutherans (two moderately formal Protestant denominations) tend to have about average SES.
- Variations in SES across denomination reveal a correlation between religious affiliation and social class.
- On the other hand, income, and therefore social class, is related to an individual's denomination.
- This is dramatically higher than average; the next highest-earning denomination is Unitarianism at $56,000.
- Explain how social class relates to religious affiliation, denomination and religiosity
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Widespread Belief
- The Protestant denominations encompass a wide array of religious beliefs.
- That is, there are various denominations within Protestantism including Evangelicals, Methodists and Baptists.
- Protestant denominations accounted for 51.3%, while Roman Catholicism, at 23.9%, was the largest individual denomination.
- Today, most Christian denominations in the United States are divided into three large groups: Evangelicalism, Mainline Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.
- Christian denominations that do not fall within either of these groups are mostly associated with ethnic minorities, i.e. the various denominations of Eastern Orthodoxy.
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The Church-Sect Typology
- The denomination lies between the church and the sect on the continuum.
- A denomination is one religion among many.
- Most of the well-known denominations of the U.S. existing today originated as sects breaking away from denominations (or Churches, in the case of Lutheranism).
- Cults, like sects, can develop into denominations.
- But given their closer semblance to denominations than to the cult type, it is more accurate to describe them as denominations.
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Asymptotes
- Vertical asymptotes occur only when the denominator is zero.
- We can identify from the linear factors in the denominator that two singularities exist, at $x=1$ and $x = -1$.
- Notice that, based on the linear factors in the denominator, singularities exists at $x=1$ and $x=-1$.
- However, one linear factor $(x-1)$ remains in the denominator because it is squared.
- The coefficient of the highest power term is $2$ in the numerator and $1$ in the denominator.