rational
adjEtymology
From Old French rational, from Medieval Latin rationale (“a pontifical stole, a pallium, an ornament worn over the chasuble”), neuter of Latin rationalis (“rational”), for which see the first etymology. Translation of λογεῖον (logeîon) or perhaps λόγιον (lógion, “oracle”) in the Septuagint version of Exodus 28.
- derived from rationalis
- derived from rational
Definitions
Capable of reasoning.
- Man is a rational creature.
- The utility of valid arguments is a monument to our frailty: to the fact that we are not completely rational beings.
Logically sound
Logically sound; not self-contradictory or otherwise absurd.
- His statements were quite rational.
Healthy or balanced intellectually
Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
- rational conduct
- Temperature 99.8 degrees. Pulse 104. She was quite conscious and rational at times, at others very noisy.
- The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
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Comprising, or expressible as, a ratio
- ¾ is a rational number, but √2 is an irrational number.
synonymous replacement for "condensed" in condensed formula.
A rational number
A rational number: a number that can be expressed as the quotient of two integers.
- The quotient of two rationals is again a rational.
The breastplate worn by Israelite high priests.
- The Rationale of iudgement alſo thou shalt mke with embrodered worke of diuers colours, according to the workmanship of the Ephod of gold, hyacinth, and purple, and ſcarlet twiſe died, and twiſted ſilke.
The neighborhood
- antonymabsurdantonym(s) of “reasonable”
- antonymirrationalantonym(s) of “reasonable”
- antonymnonsensicalantonym(s) of “reasonable”
- antonymarbitraryantonym(s) of “reasonable”
- antonymarationalantonym(s) of “capable of reasoning”
- antonymnon-rationalantonym(s) of “capable of reasoning”
- neighborarational
- neighborirrational
- neighbornon-rational
- neighborrationale
- neighborrationality
- neighborrationalness
- neighborsubrational
- neighborsuprarational
Derived
antirational, biorational, birational, contrarational, extrarational, hyperrational, nonrational, overrational, prerational, preterrational, pseudorational, Ratfor, rational basis review, rational choice theory, rational dress, rational egoism, rational egoist, rational function, rational horizon, rationalisation, rationalism, rationalist, rationalistic, rationalization, rationally, rational numbers, rational root theorem, rational selfishness, rational symptom, semirational, superrational, transrational, ultrarational, unirational, unrational
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at rational. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at rational. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at rational
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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