denominator

Algebra

(noun)

The number or expression written below the line in a fraction (e.g., the 2 in $1/2$).

Related Terms

  • imaginary
  • rationalization
  • conjugate
  • complex conjugate
  • cross-multiply
  • reciprocal
  • fraction
  • Example
  • domain
  • rational function
  • singularities
  • vertical asymptote
  • rational expression
  • numerator
  • whole number

(noun)

The number or expression written below the line in a fraction (thus $2$ in $\frac {1}{2}$).

Related Terms

  • imaginary
  • rationalization
  • conjugate
  • complex conjugate
  • cross-multiply
  • reciprocal
  • fraction
  • Example
  • domain
  • rational function
  • singularities
  • vertical asymptote
  • rational expression
  • numerator
  • whole number

(noun)

The number or expression written below the line in a fraction (thus 2 in ½).

Related Terms

  • imaginary
  • rationalization
  • conjugate
  • complex conjugate
  • cross-multiply
  • reciprocal
  • fraction
  • Example
  • domain
  • rational function
  • singularities
  • vertical asymptote
  • rational expression
  • numerator
  • whole number

(noun)

The number that sits below the fraction bar and represents the whole number.

Related Terms

  • imaginary
  • rationalization
  • conjugate
  • complex conjugate
  • cross-multiply
  • reciprocal
  • fraction
  • Example
  • domain
  • rational function
  • singularities
  • vertical asymptote
  • rational expression
  • numerator
  • whole number
Political Science

(noun)

The denominator refers to the number of voters eligible to vote.

Related Terms

  • suffrage
  • numerator

Examples of denominator in the following topics:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Verbs derived from Nouns and Adjectives (Denominatives)

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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