fractionally

adverb

Definition of fractionallynext
as in imperceptibly

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Recent Examples of fractionally Shares are down fractionally this morning but entered today within a few bucks of their all-time high. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026 Dividends, corporate actions, tax reporting and reconciliation all become more complicated when positions are held fractionally across multiple currencies and markets. — Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 Gas prices were down fractionally compared to Wednesday, but will likely catch up to the most recent spike in oil in the coming days. — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026 The two Republicans lead other candidates only fractionally, according to results released Wednesday by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies and co-sponsored by The Times. — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026 Naturally, players will do anything to make the hole feel even fractionally more approachable and comfortable off the tee. — Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2026 The moon — appearing fractionally smaller than usual — was unable to cover the entirety of the sun's disk, leaving a thin sliver of its outer edge visible to surround Earth's natural satellite to create a ring in the skies over Antarctica. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2026 Indeed, data center infrastructure provider Vertiv Holdings shares closed fractionally higher after having fallen more than 7%. — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 6 Jan. 2026 Those who have a college degree face a fractionally lower unemployment rate at the time of writing (a little over 6%) than peers with a high school diploma or some level of college training. — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractionally
  1. imperceptibly
  2. progressively
  3. increasingly
  4. slowly
Adverb
  • The rival closed her eyes, shivered, nodded almost imperceptibly.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
  • The nanobubbler system — essentially imperceptibly small bubbles meant to oxygenate the water and choke off algae growth — had never been tested at this scale on a public monument before deployment.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 July 2026
Definition of imperceptibly
Adverb
  • Researchers found that microglia, the main immune cells in the brain, progressively declined between age 50 and 75.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Training used as many as 128 GPUs and approximately 21,000 GPU hours, with experiments showing progressively better tracking and generalization as data, model size, and compute increased.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of progressively
Adverb
  • As bears have become increasingly common in Connecticut, so have their encounters with humans.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Colorado's wildfire fight is increasingly beginning from the air -- sometimes before a fire is even visible to the naked eye.
    — Brian Maass, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of increasingly
Adverb
  • Storms stretched from the Plains to Ohio early Friday morning and will slowly start to sink south and ease up by the afternoon.
    — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The Gordon Road Stand, the oldest in the EFL and barely 30 yards wide, was still standing, albeit slowly rotting away after being closed in the wake of the Bradford City fire disaster that claimed 56 lives in 1985.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of slowly

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“Fractionally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fractionally. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

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