How to Use numerator in a Sentence

numerator

noun

• The numerator in the fraction 3/5 is 3.
• But now that physicians know what to look for, the numerator in that ratio will likely change as well.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2021
• The question involves fractions that feature a 1 in their numerator, like , or .
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Mar. 2022
• Around third grade, most of us learned a fraction has two parts—the numerator is the number on the top and the denominator is on the bottom.
  — Andrew Tisch, Forbes, 7 June 2022
• But in this global crisis, both the numerator and the denominator are fuzzy.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2020
• The one in the magnetic field equation is in the numerator, and there was already one in the denominator.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• But the quantum theories that describe the real particles of our world put variables in the numerator too.
  — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
• The amplitudes take the form of fractions, with a numerator above a denominator.
  — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
• And at each stage, there are only finitely many fractions where the numerator and denominator are at least in magnitude at most n.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• If the denominator becomes a bigger number, so will the numerator, the thinking goes.
  — Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2022
• Think of the internal content as the numerator of the equation, and the market context as the denominator.
  — Isaac Cheifetz, Star Tribune, 21 Nov. 2020
• Our economy won’t keep growing for long unless both this numerator and denominator are growing.
  — Andrew Tisch, Forbes, 7 June 2022
• The numerator is also shaky — for one, many people are dying at home without getting tested, and the extent to which deaths are undercounted is still unknown.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 28 Apr. 2020
• Either when the numerator (in this case, the number of positive tests) rises; or when the denominator (in this case the number of tests performed) falls.
  — Joanne Silberner, Wired, 22 Dec. 2020
• Still, that would be a pretty high number, even if the numerator were average rather than Brobdingnagian profits.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 May 2022
• These are slight variations of the rule of 72, just using different numerators for the calculation.
  — Anna-Louise Jackson, wsj.com, 11 Nov. 2023
• The Index will be higher, obviously, with fewer laws in the denominator or with more rules in the numerator.
  — Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• In fourth grade, the standard is students can compare two fractions with different numerators or denominators.
  — Jess Nocera, baltimoresun.com, 26 June 2019
• That comes out to a debt-to-GDP ratio where the numerator is growing faster and the denominator is growing slower.
  — The Editors, National Review, 24 Oct. 2023
• And the numerator of deaths from the flu may be calibrated somewhat more conservatively than those currently listed as deaths from the coronavirus.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 13 Apr. 2020
• That denominator is constantly increasing, but the numerator is not.
  — Kyle Eustice, VIBE.com, 30 Mar. 2026
• In theory, the value of a stock is determined by a formula that has future dividend payments (or cash flows) in the numerator and an interest rate in the denominator.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 14 May 2022
• Still, that would be a pretty high number, even if the numerator represented average rather than Brobdingnagian profits.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 June 2022
• As a result, the obviously overwrought profit forecast hoisted the denominator, just as the 34% drop in prices was crushing the numerator.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 May 2020
• With regard to the positivity rate, Tulane’s testing has been adding a lot to the city’s denominator (testing) while only rarely adding much to the numerator (cases).
  — Jeff Asher, NOLA.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• Its numerator—total deaths—depends on the spread of ages within that population, the prevalence of preexisting illnesses, how far people live from hospitals, and how well staffed or well equipped those hospitals are.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2020
• Banks are now buying back stock and distributing capital to shareholders, or, in SLR terms, willfully reducing their numerator.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 13 Mar. 2021
• More candidates competing for fewer votes has left Democrats grappling with both a numerator and denominator problem in Orange County.
  — Ronald Brownstein, CNN, 5 June 2018
• Or – the numerator in the CFR calculation, which is the number of infections officially reported, was too small by a factor of 3 or 4.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
• Figueiredo figured that the numerator could be the secret to finding the geometric underpinnings of more realistic particle interactions.
  — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024