Ratio

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Hence, fixed relation of number, quantity, or degree; rate; proportion; as, the ratio of representation in Congress.

II. Ratio ·noun 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.

Related Words

ratio
rătĭo, ōnis (abl. rationi, Lucr. 6, 66), f. [reor, ratus], a reckoning, account, calculation, comput...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
ratio
ratiō ōnis, f RA-, a reckoning, numbering, casting up, account, calculation, computation : ut par ...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
Aspect ratio
·add. ·- The ratio of the long to the short side of an aeroplane, aerocurve, or wing. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
antecedent of a ratio
The first of the two terms. ...

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