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Definition

the relative magnitudes of two quantities — often expressed as a:b (which could also be expressed as the fraction a/b)

There is much interesting study on the predictive value of the ratio of the length of the index finger to the ring finger within a given gender and race.

ratio = relative lengths

A relatively low ratio of the length of the index finger to the ring finger correlates with increased risk of prostate cancer in men.

ratio = relative lengths

The ratio of width to height of typical computer displays is 4:3.

ratio = relative lengths

Their profitablity ratios are good, but their liquidity ratios are of concern.

ratios = relative quantities

Stanley weighed three times as much as the other boy. Mrs. Bell wrote the ratio on the board, 3:1, unaware of how much embarrassment she had caused both of them.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

ratio = the relative amount of two quantities

On his last day of school, his math teacher... taught ratios.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

ratios = the relative magnitudes of two quantities (for example 1:2)

Blacks outnumbered whites by a ratio of more than ten to one.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
This equation does not give us the value of the unknown factor but gives us a ratio between two unknowns.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Budgets, metrics, research, and ratios: My form of expression became much more calculated.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
In terms of class size, teachers' education, and computer-to-student ratio, the schools attended by blacks and whites are similar.
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics
What does ultima ratio regum mean?
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
To fill each necessary combat billet, one job to one officer, would call for a 5 per cent ratio of officers — but 3 per cent is all we've got.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
Plus the ratio in the classes of professors to students is really good.
Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
I must have had a pee ratio of three to one in Nam versus the amount of times I had peed in Harlem.
Walter Dean Myers -- Fallen Angels
The authorities normally preferred to have a ratio of one warder for every three prisoners.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
Their meat has a ratio of about 14 omega-6 to 1 omega-3.
Michael Pollan -- The Omnivore's Dilemma
With my first letter I was instantaneously transformed from a number on a teacher-ratio chart to a labor problem.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
That made a ratio of seventy-three to one.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
Wasn't she growing visibly older in ratio as Vida grew plumper and younger?
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
High ratio for what grade school taught us was an extinct country.
Marie Lu -- Legend

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