RATIO
\ɹˈe͡ɪʃɪˌə͡ʊ], \ɹˈeɪʃɪˌəʊ], \ɹ_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ɪ__ˌəʊ]\
Definitions of RATIO
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another of the same kind. It is expressed by the quotient of the division of the first by the second; thus, the ratio of 3 to 6 is expressed by / or /; of a to b by a/b; or (less commonly) the second term is made the dividend; as, a:b = b/a.
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Hence, fixed relation of number, quantity, or degree; rate; proportion; as, the ratio of representation in Congress.
By Oddity Software
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The relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another of the same kind. It is expressed by the quotient of the division of the first by the second; thus, the ratio of 3 to 6 is expressed by / or /; of a to b by a/b; or (less commonly) the second term is made the dividend; as, a:b = b/a.
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Hence, fixed relation of number, quantity, or degree; rate; proportion; as, the ratio of representation in Congress.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A reason, a cause, an explanation, a mode or manner; as Ratio symptomatum, an explanation of the symptoms, - Ratio medendi, Genus curationis, Via curandi; the reason, mode or manner of cure.
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Reason -r. Medendi, see Ratio- r. Symptomatum, see Ratio.
By Robley Dunglison
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n. [Latin] Proportion ; rate ; degree ;-in mathematics, the relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another of the same kind, as expressed by the quotient of the second divided by the first ; - fixed relation of number, quantity, or degree.
