ratio

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1. ratio - Noun

2. ratio - Verb

3. ratio - Interjection

Meaning

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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The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. Alberto Moravia

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. William Blake

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 (novelist)

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Arthur C. Clarke

I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child. Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

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