"two-thirds" meaning in English

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          "text": "two-thirds majority",
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          "text": "two-thirds of the population",
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          "ref": "1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railway and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709:",
          "text": "[...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.",
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          "ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 186:",
          "text": "Gilgamesh is himself a man, two-thirds god, one-third mortal.",
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          "ref": "2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 123:",
          "text": "[B]ut easily two-thirds of the work we carried out in this exercise was the de-bogging of other vehicles around the original one.",
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        "Two of three equal parts (2/3, ⅔, 0.666...)."
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          "lang": "Cebuano",
          "sense": "two of three equal parts",
          "word": "duha ka sikatulo"
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          "sense": "two of three equal parts",
          "word": "dvě třetiny"
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          "sense": "two of three equal parts",
          "word": "kaksi kolmasosaa"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "two of three equal parts",
          "word": "zwei Drittel"
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          "sense": "two of three equal parts",
          "word": "kétharmad"
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          "sense": "two of three equal parts",
          "word": "dwie trzecie"
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      "lang": "Cebuano",
      "sense": "two of three equal parts",
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      "sense": "two of three equal parts",
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      "sense": "two of three equal parts",
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      "sense": "two of three equal parts",
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      "sense": "two of three equal parts",
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      "roman": "dve treti",
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