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ratio

noun as in percentage, relation of part to whole

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The graph represents the ratio of the number of times that word was searched relative to the total number of all searches during that time.

Other houses in the city show a similar ratio, with animals a far more popular subject than humans of all types.

They just want to spout statistics about student-faculty ratio and class sizes to you.

From Time

Neither team is expected to run the ball all that much, as both are pretty much 60-to-40 in their pass-to run ratios.

That ratio could hit 180% by 2050, by far the highest debt burden the US has ever had.

From Quartz

Carlisle writes that the Air Force would want a crew ratio of 10 to one for each drone orbit during normal everyday operations.

During an emergency that ratio could be allowed to drop to 8.5 people per orbit.

However, the Air Force is so strapped for people that the ratio has dropped below even that reduced level.

The Italian navy tweeted regular updates of the saved-to-stranded passenger ratio.

From that, they extracted the ratio of the number of deuterium atoms to the number of hydrogen atoms.

The fervor of an Englishman's loyalty is usually in a direct ratio with the extent of his material possessions.

This ratio constitutes one of the most important points in diagnosis, since it is practically unknown in other diseases.

The service is practically the same, but the ratio of charges is from two to three times higher in the coffee room.

Four hundred thousand pounds probably bore as great a ratio to the wealth of Scotland then as forty millions would bear now.

It was soon found that with plate webs the ratio of depth to span could not be economically increased beyond 1/15 to 1/12.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ratio, such as: proportion, quota, rate, scale, arrangement, and correlation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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