one-eighth

See also: one eighth

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one-eighth (uncountable)

  1. The fraction that represents the real number 0.125; ⅛.
    • 2023 May 16, Maud Newton, “Blending Native History and Myth Into Heartfelt Memoir”, in The New York Times Book Review‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 June 2023:
      Blood quantum rules — which began as a colonizer practice designed to limit tribal citizenship but were later adopted by some Native peoples as a means of preserving cultural identity — require the tribe’s members to be at least one-eighth S’Klallam and to have at least one full-blooded S’Klallam ancestor.

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