Usually means: Proportion between two numerical values.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. ratio: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ratio: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ratio: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ratio: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ratio: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ratio, ratio: Wordnik
  7. ratio: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ratio: Wiktionary
  9. ratio: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ratio: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ratio: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ratio: Dictionary.com
  13. ratio: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ratio: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ratio (disambiguation), Ratio: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ratio: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ratio: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ratio: Rhymezone
  19. ratio: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ratio: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ratio: Free Dictionary
  22. ratio: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ratio: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. ratio: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. ratio: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ratio: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  3. ratio-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. ratio: Legal dictionary
  3. ratio: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ratio: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Ratio: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. ratio: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. Ratio: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. ratio: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. Ratio: Physic and Astronomy Glossary
  5. ratio: UNCChem Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Ratio, ratio: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A number representing a comparison between two named things.
noun:  (arithmetic) The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).
noun:  (Internet) 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.
verb:  (transitive, Internet slang) 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.
noun:  (law) Short for ratio decidendi. [(law) The legal principle or rationale on which a judicial decision is based.]

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