E.g. one from a third of miners getting classical inspiration right (9)
I believe the answer is:
numerator
'e g one from a third' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.
'miners getting classical inspiration right' is the wordplay.
'miners' becomes 'NUM' (National Union of Mineworkers).
'getting' says to put letters next to each other.
'classical inspiration' becomes 'erato' (one of the muses in Greek mythology. I am not sure about the 'classical' bit.).
'right' becomes 'r' (common abbreviation).
'num'+'erato'+'r'='NUMERATOR'
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for numerator that I've seen before include "Upper half of fraction" , "One counts" , "Top half of 1/2 , for example" , "it goes over the line" , "Upper part of fraction" .)