lowest common denominator

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The smallest positive integer which is a multiple of every denominator of several fractions

The lowest common denominator of 1/6 and 3/10 is 30.

The most simple or base shared interest or characteristic among a group or collection of people etc

Reality TV really is appealing to the lowest common denominator in audiences.

The group having such taste, sensibility, or opinion: “The press can resist the standard of the lowest common denominator, the rationalization that all news is fit to print that has appeared anywhere else” (Edward M. Kennedy)
The most basic, least sophisticated level of taste, sensibility, or opinion among a group of people
disapproval If you say that something is designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator, you are critical of it because it is designed to be liked by the majority of people. Tabloid newspapers pander to the lowest common denominator
lowest number which is a multiple of all numbers of a set
In mathematics, the lowest common denominator is the smallest number that all the numbers on the bottom of a particular group of fractions can be divided into
disapproval If you describe a plan or policy as the lowest common denominator, you are critical of it because it has been deliberately made too simple so that nobody will disagree. Although the plan received unanimous approval, this does not mean that it represents the lowest common denominator
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