The Collaborative International Dictionary
one-eighth
one-eighth \one-eighth\ n. an eightht part.
Syn: eighth.
WordNet
one-eighth
n. an eighth part [syn: eighth]
Usage examples of "one-eighth".
American dominions extended over an area equal to one-eighth of the habitable globe.
It's one-fourth Harlem blacks who died between 1960 and 1980, you know, and one-eighth eighteenth-century Dahomeyan blacks.
To mitigate the effects of this, the cylinder is partially coated with shiny aluminium oxide in stripes one-eighth of an inch wide, to reflect the sun's scorching rays, and insulated with glass fibre, to keep out the ultimate cold of space.
Of the rail fans, 'Monty' Szymanski is of particular interest because he 'helped restore locomotives for the Cass State Park Scenic Railway and had built several one-eighth scale models of steam locomotives.