Concept in Definition ABC

To division of a thing into parts it is called a fraction.

Division into part of something and part of a whole

Also, the fraction will be the part or portion that corresponds to a whole.

The senses of the term just indicated can be used in various contexts when the need is precisely express the division that is made of something into parts, and that as a consequence that divided part belongs to a everything.

When a wealthy individual dies, his fortune, in the case of the existence of direct natural heirs, must be divided equally between them.

Thus, if the heirs are four children, one hundred percent of their fortune will be divided into four parts, and each of them will have a quarter of it.

Once the succession process is carried out in accordance with the law, the material assets will be divided into the portion mentioned for each heir.

Mathematics: number that expresses one or more parts of a unit that is divided into portions

At the request of the math, a fraction will be

expression that indicates a division, the number that manifests one or more parts of the unit, divided into equal portions.

So 4/5, which we will read as four-fifths, tells us four parts out of a total of five.

Continuing with the same example in numbers and applying it to a certain context to improve understanding, a individual who broke four fifths of a collection of English terrines, will have broken four pieces of the five that existed.

Notably the fraction indicates one quantity divided by another and that they are composed of numerators and denominators; In our example of lines above, 4 is the numerator and 5 is the denominator, it will always be integers with which the fractions are rational numbers.

Fraction classes

There are different types of fractions depending on the relationship established between numerator and denominator: own (the denominator is greater than the numerator), improper (in this the opposite happens to the previous one, the denominator is less than the numerator), reducible (both numerator and denominator are not prime to each other so the fraction can be simplified) and irreducible (Here the numerator and denominator are prime to each other and then the fraction cannot be simplified).

Christian religion: celebration of the Eucharist in which the bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ

On the other hand, in the Christian religion, the fraction is the name given to the act of dividing the bread while communion takes place.

Communion or Eucharist is a sacrament and a tradition in the Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox, Coptic, and other churches, and involving the consecration of bread and of wine, which after this celebration become the body and blood of Jesus Christ, respectively.

In Catholic theology the Eucharist is considered a sacrament that was established by Jesus Christ himself at the Last Supper and on the eve of his death.

In this particular ceremony the sacrifice that Christ made on the cross is represented and that is why it is a very special and great moment. emotion in the celebration of mass.

In this passage of the mass, the faithful kneel in front of the priest who officiates and stars in that act of conversion of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus.

Two faithful are those who, in the middle of the celebration, enter through the central corridor carrying the offerings of bread and wine to give them to the religious who receives them and then proceeds to consecrate them.

It is worth noting that to receive the sacrament of the Eucharist the faithful must have confessed before, that is, they must be free of sin in order to receive the body of the child of God.

Law: part of a law

In the right, on the other hand, fraction, is the name that receives a fragment specific to a law and that is normally numbered.

Use in politics and in the Italian geographical division

On politics Fractions are called those parliamentarians who belong to political groups and who by case represent them in parliament.

And in Italy it is called geographical fraction to a municipal subdivision, the equivalent of a locality would be, and that within the municipality in question constitutes a nucleus of houses that are quite isolated from their headquarters.

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