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Definition of Ratios
1. ratio [n] - See also: ratio
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ratios
Literary usage of Ratios
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Euclid: The Errors, by which Theon, Or Others, Have Long Ago by Robert Simson, Euclid (1838)
"IF there be any number of ratios, and any number of other ratios such, that the
ratio compounded of ratios which are the same with the first ratios, ..."
2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"more precise significance, but particularly the ratios 5:1 and 15:1 in ...
The foregoing table contains the F2 and FI ratios for the various families. ..."
3. Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories edited by Jonathan Y. Richmond, Robert W. McKinney (1994)
"Financial performance During 1987-91, profitability ratios, as measured by the
... By comparison, liquidity ratios for the industry producing surveying ..."
4. The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat by John A. Warden, III (1995)
"LOSS ratios A FUNCTION OF FORCE ratios Another phenomenon is important for ...
Keeping the same equipment and personnel, as the force ratios go against one ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic and Water-supply Engineering: Relating to by John Thomas Fanning (1886)
"ratios of Variable Delivery of Water.—If we analyze the ratios of movement of a
single, and the sums of ratios of movement of two or three coupled ..."
6. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by Arthur Graham Hall, Fred Goodrich Frink (1910)
"Relations between the ratios and the angle. The three related distances of any
other point P' in the terminal side of the angle « are connected with the ..."
7. Epistemological Problems of Economics by Ludwig von Mises (2003)
"Exchange ratios and the Limits of Monetary Calculation The money prices of goods
and services that we are able to ascertain are the ratios in which these ..."
8. Proportion and Harmony of Line and Color in Painting, Sculpture, and by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"Greeks Pre-eminent in Architecture—The Secret of their Methods of Proportion
Involves more than the Study of Measurements—The Mind is Conscious of ratios in ..."