ratio
ratio is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Hence, fixed relation of number, quantity, or degree; rate; proportion; as, the ratio of representation in Congress. Compound ratio, Duplicate ratio, Inverse ratio, etc. See under Compound, Duplicate, etc. -- Ratio of a geometrical progression, the constant quantity by which each term is multiplied to produce the succeeding one.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- administer
- administration
- allocate
- allocation
- allot
- allotment
- allowance
- appoint
- appointment
- apportion
- apportionment
- appropriate
- appropriation
- assign
- assignment
- billet
- carve
- cast
- come
- consignment
- contingent
- deal
- detail
- dispensation
- dispense
- distribute
- distribution
- divide
- dividend
- division
- dole
- dose
- each
- fair
- for
- lot
- measure
- meed
- mess
- mete
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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