Definition of Ratio

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Definition of Ratio

Ratio

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.

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

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Ratio Quotations

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
Ken Blanchard

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
H. G. Wells

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Samuel Butler

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
Thomas Malthus

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
Thomas Malthus

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Margaret Atwood

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Georg Simmel

When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.
Ken Burns

Ratio Translations

ratio in French is ratio
ratio in Italian is riferimento

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