Definition of "one-ninth" []

• One part in nine equal parts (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Indians have one-fifth as many breast cancers as North Americans of the same age, one-eighth as many lung cancers, one-ninth as many colon cancers and one-fiftieth our rate of prostate cancer."
• "The bolivar is now worth about one-ninth what it was then, relative to the dollar (which, of course, has also declined in value)."
• "Brown, the former head of the Economic Development Committee, received about one-ninth of his transition funding from the Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington."