The Collaborative International Dictionary
one-sixth \one-sixth\ n. a sixth part.
Syn: sixth.
WordNet
n. a sixth part [syn: sixth]
Usage examples of "one-sixth".
Then he tells his listeners that working in one-sixth gravity has done wonders for his bunions, which had been killing him on Earth.
In the Bouches-du-Rhône "400 electors in Marseilles, one-sixth of whom had not the income of a silver marc, despotically controlled our Electoral Assembly.
One-sixth of the Earth's circumference between the Canaries and Cipangu, and yet that still meant a voyage of more than 3,000 miles without a port of call.
The solutions in the cases of one-third, one-fourth, one-sixth, one-seventh, and one-ninth must be of the form 9—9.
Now, as six equal equilateral triangles placed together will form a regular hexagon, as shown, it is evident that the shaded pasture is just one-sixth of the complete area of a circle.
It was at least six hundred meters down- down being created by the one-sixth standard gravity being generated by the singularities imprisoned at the base of the tree - and there were no railings.
The doctors on the ground had speculated that the cardiovascular system was so much more efficient, here in one-sixth G, that it cleansed the muscles of lactic acid and other waste products before they had a chance to do any damage.