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fractionally
This term describes a minute change that is often barely perceptible or statistically insignificant. It carries a clinical, precise connotation, frequently appearing in financial, scientific, or technical reports to describe incremental shifts in data or value.
Because it emphasizes a tiny portion of a whole, it is often used to contrast a slight increase or decrease against a larger, more dramatic trend. It suggests a level of precision where even the smallest deviation is being tracked and recorded.
Meanings
Examples
The stock price rose fractionally after the announcement.
I think the new model is fractionally faster than the old one.
The patient's temperature is fractionally higher than it was this morning.
Move the monitor fractionally to the left so I can see the screen.
It is fractionally more expensive, but the quality is much better.
The runner finished fractionally ahead of her closest competitor.
The runner finished fractionally ahead of her closest competitor.
Maybe if I adjust the angle fractionally, the light will hit the sensor.
The results were fractionally different from the previous trial.