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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. Related Definitions: Another, As, By, Commonly, Congress, Degree, Dividend, Division, Expressed, First, Fixed, Hence, Has, In, Is, It, Kind, Less, Made, Magnitude, Number, Of, One, Or, Proportion, Quantity, Quotient, Rate, Ratio, Relation, Representation, Same, Second, Term, The, Thus, To, Which

Ratio Quotations 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 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 The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. Aldous Huxley The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. Aldous Huxley Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. Aldous Huxley

Ratio Translations ratio in French is ratio ratio in Italian is riferimento

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