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Discover LudwigThe word "one-sixth" is correct and usable in written English.
You would use it to describe one part of a whole that is divided into six equal parts. For example, "She ate one-sixth of the cake."
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one-sixth
adjective
Being one sixth of the usual dimension.
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— one-sixth.
Parcels' share was about one-sixth.
Forests cover about one-sixth of Nagaland.
Manufacturing now accounts for one-sixth of the GDP and about one-sixth of the workforce.
Frequented monthly by one-sixth of the earth's population.
But health care represents one-sixth of the American economy.
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Nuclear fission reactors provided approximately one sixth of the world's electricity needs in recent years.
Introducing dwells reduced the lifetime for both phase angles to about one sixth.
In our experiments, we take one sixth of the total patch size volume.
One sixth (15.5%, 248/1603) of the patients were malnourished.
Length about one sixth of the head shield.
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