Synonym: comparison, percentage, proportion. Similar words: operation, migration, separation, AND operation, reparation, immigration, exploration, integration. Meaning: ['reɪʃəʊ /-ʃɪəʊ] n. the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).
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151. Astonishingly the Commission failed to realize that its proposed ratio of one additional member for three constituency members would be inadequate.
152. Depending on the exact value of the ratio, the model produced stripes or lattices.
153. A high ratio invariably means future output growth and, hopefully,(www.Sentencedict.com) improved external debt servicing capacity through increased exports.
154. There has been an increase in the dependency ratio because of several factors.
155. More research is needed to optimise the size of droplets and their charge-to-mass ratio for different pesticides and targets.
156. But again larger concerns generated higher market valuations - the median price to earnings ratio was 24.7 against 15.1 for smaller firms.
157. That means that the ratio of our debt to our national income is coming down.
158. The real frequency of worldwide maternal mortality may be as much as three to five times higher than this ratio.
159. The air / fuel ratio on a weight basis also suggests the Intermediate character of oil between natural gas and coal.
160. The bankers' deposits item in the balance sheet refers to the cash ratio and operational balances of the banks.
161. The likelihood ratio test statistic shown above is a formalization of this.
162. He took the ratio between repressive law and restitutive law as an index of the type of solidarity of the society.
163. Second, the typical dependency ratio assumes that all those aged 16 - 64 are gainfully employed.
164. The lack of a gold standard for health service need was a reason for using standardised mortality ratio in the RAWP formula.
165. However, because deprivation is also associated with excess mortality some of this is already picked up by including standardised mortality ratio.
166. Also, these conversion costs remain constant for any gas / coal fuel ratio.
167. The ratio was slightly lower than that achieved by the industry before nationalisation, but it was not markedly out of line with other countries.
168. UniChem said its debt-to-equity ratio would rise to 95 percent at the end of 1996.
169. This amount may be expressed as a ratio of the amount of useful information compared to the amount of redundant information.
170. An Examiner poll showed that California voters, by a nearly 2-1 ratio, support the ban.
171. Under Czech banking law, all banks must meet a capital adequacy ratio of 8 percent.
172. A falling savings ratio and rapidly rising consumer expenditure were certainly significant features of the second half of the 1980s.
173. During the periods when the profit share declined, a definite fall in the output-capital ratio occurred.
174. The ratio of abortions per 1,000 live births was 229 in 1987, compared with 180 in 1977.
175. In general, the staff/student ratio is rarely as good as in a school for children and young people with severe learning difficulties.
176. Unadjusted and adjusted hazard ratio and 95% confidence intervals were calculated.
177. The factor content of its exports consists of a higher capital / labor ratio than the factor content of its imports.
178. The cruise tries to keep the bookings balanced, with a proportionate ratio of men and women.
179. Another property, concatenation, arises when we can add measures together: a feature which attaches only to ratio scales.
180. Contrast that with the other big six industrial economies, where the ratio will rise by 16 percentage points, to 36%.
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