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ratio

noun
/ˈɹeɪ.ʃi.əʊ/UK/ˈɹeɪ.si.əʊ//ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratiō. Doublet of ration and reason.

  1. borrowed from ratiō

Definitions

  1. A number representing a comparison between two named things.

    • Scientists believe that the sex ratio is equal at conception, explained Steven Orzack, president and senior research scientist of the Fresh Pond Research Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    • On Monday, the issuer announced the addition of four new transfer partners — three airlines and one hotel chain — to its credit card rewards program, along with improved transfer ratios for several existing partners.

  2. The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).

  3. Ellipsis of ratio decidendi.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The number of comments to a post or other expression on social media relative to the…

      The number of comments to a post or other expression on social media relative to the number of likes; a high ratio suggests disagreement with the contents of the original post.

    2. To respond to a post or message on social media in a greater number than the number of…

      To respond to a post or message on social media in a greater number than the number of likes the post receives, especially to condemn or mock the original poster.

      • The politician's post was quickly ratioed due to its controversial nature.
      • It used to be fun to watch tweets like that get ratioed back into their ugly corner of the internet.

    3. Indicates disagreement with a post the user disagrees with or dislikes.

      • L + ratio
      • "Ratio. YoungBoy is better." "What?" "Make better music. You fell off."

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Derived

anharmonic ratio, aspect ratio, basic reproduction ratio, basic reproductive ratio, branching ratio, cardiothoracic ratio, common ratio, compression ratio, contrast ratio, corn-hog ratio, coward's ratio, credit-deposit ratio, cross-ratio, cross ratio, current ratio, damping ratio, dependency ratio, deviation ratio, double ratio, ed/ad ratio, eigenratio, emergy investment ratio, enantiomeric ratio, error ratio, eudismic ratio, eudysmic ratio, extreme ratio, failure ratio, financial ratio, gear ratio, gender ratio, Gini ratio, glide ratio, golden ratio, gyromagnetic ratio, hazard ratio, heat capacity ratio, hog-corn ratio, Horowitz ratio, joy-to-stuff ratio · +62 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ratio. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ratio. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at ratio

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA