Ratio

//ˈɹeɪ.ʃi.əʊ//

"Ratio" in a Sentence (19 examples)

The merger was implemented on a 50-50 ratio.

The higher the ratio of children to parents, the harder it is to bring up the children.

As yardsticks to measure the effectiveness of information retrieval there exist those called 'recall ratio' and 'precision ratio'.

The precision ratio is an index that indicates how many articles meet the search criteria out of all of the articles retrieved.

The application allows you to quickly calculate the ratio of body mass index - BMI.

It's important to get the carbon-to-nitrogen ratio right in a compost heap.

What's the student/teacher ratio at your school?

The screen has an aspect ratio of 4:3.

The channel has low signal-to-noise ratio.

Forchhammer found that the proportions of the major salts in seawater stay about the same everywhere. This constant ratio is known as Forchhammer's Principle.

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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.

The politician's post was quickly ratioed due to its controversial nature.

“Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire a**hole,” the protester yelled. “Go back to getting ratioed on Twitter. Go back to Davos with the other billionaire elites who think they know how to run the world. That’s not what democracy is.”

It used to be fun to watch tweets like that get ratioed back into their ugly corner of the internet.

Cue the goading Trump tweet (“Howard Schultz doesn’t have the ‘guts’ to run for President!”), the Twitter ratioing and the outrage from the left.

And, just FYI, here's how brutally the public ratioed that tweet.

It is essential that you ratio anyone who comes for your honour.

"Ratio. YoungBoy is better." "What?" "Make better music. You fell off."

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