0 a number that can be divided exactly by all the denominators (= numbers under the line) in a group of fractions:
12 is a common denominator of 1/3 and 1/4.
1 something that is the same for all the members of a group and might bring them together:
The common denominator was that we had all worked for the same company.
2 a fact or quality that is shared by two or more people or groups:
Trade is a major common denominator between the two countries.
Unable to unite farm programs with party politics, debates over policy were reduced to their lowest common denominator: individual commodities.
A common denominator among these artists, however, is the use of advanced studio recording technology to represent such otherworldly themes.
This practice crosses cultural boundaries with ease, because demographic ageing is a common denominator while the varied cultural and anthropological perspectives are actively celebrated.
It is obvious that, as the 'smallest common denominator', such an underlying meaning has to be of the highest generality.
The argument that secular public discourse provides a common denominator that all citizens share is comparably clever-and equally unpersuasive.
A number of chapters in the volume do not support that common denominator.
What appears as "radical contextualization" might just be the common denominator of various failures to distinguish relevant facts and rules from irrelevant ones.
This paper proposes that distinctiveness can be regained by returning to prediction as a common denominator for all theories related to architecture.
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