different between ratio vs measure

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratio. Doublet of ration and reason.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??e?.?o?/, /??e?.?i?o?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??e?.?i.??/, /??e?.???/

Noun

ratio (plural ratios)

1. A number representing a comparison between two named things.
2. (arithmetic) The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).
3. (law) Short for ratio decidendi.
4. (Internet) The amount of comments to a post or other expression on social media relative to the number of likes.

Derived terms

Related terms

• obiter
• obiter dictum
• ratio decidendi
• rational
• irrational

Translations

Verb

ratio (third-person singular simple present ratios, present participle ratioing, simple past and past participle ratioed)

1. (transitive, social media) To respond to a post or message on social media in a greater number than the number of likes the post receives.

Anagrams

• Artio, Otira, ariot, artoi, atrio-, iatro-

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rati?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra?.(t)si.o?/
• Hyphenation: ra?tio

Noun

ratio f (plural ratio's)

1. (mathematics, countable) ratio, proportion

   Synonym: verhouding

2. (uncountable) reason

   Synonyms: rede, verstand

Related terms

• rationalisme
• rationeel

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratio. Doublet of raison and ration.

Noun

ratio m (plural ratios)

1. (mathematics) ratio

Further reading

• “ratio” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rati? (“reason, explanation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rat.t?sjo/
• Rhymes: -attsjo
• Hyphenation: rà?tio

Noun

ratio f (uncountable)

1. reason, motive

   Synonyms: motivazione, motivo, ragione

2. expedient

   Synonym: espediente

Related terms

• ragione
• razione

Latin

Etymology

From ratus / reor (“to compute”) +? -ti?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ra.ti.o?/, [?rät?io?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ra.t?si.o/, [?r??t??s?i?]

Noun

rati? f (genitive rati?nis); third declension

1. reason, reasoning, explanation, ground, motive, rationality, rationale
2. calculation, account, accounting, reckoning, computation, business
3. procedure, course, manner, method, mode, conduct, plan
4. theory, view
5. doctrine, system, philosophy (collective body of the teachings of a school of thought)
6. register (list)
7. regard, respect, interest, consideration
8. reference, relation, respect

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• rati?n?bilis
• rati?n?lis
• rati?n?rium
• rati?cinor
• ratiuncula

Related terms

• rati?cinium

Descendants

See also

• pr?porti?

References

• ratio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ratio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ratio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ratio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratio. Doublet of razón and ración.

Noun

ratio f (plural ratios)

1. (mathematics) ratio

English

Etymology

From Middle English mesure, from Old French mesure, from Latin m?ns?ra (“a measuring, rule, something to measure by”), from m?nsus, past participle of m?t?r? (“to measure, mete”). Displaced native Middle English m?te, mete (“measure”) (from Old English met (“measure”), compare Old English mitta (“a measure”)), Middle English ameten, imeten (“to measure”) (from Old English ?metan, ?emetan (“to mete, measure”)), Middle English hof, hoof (“measure, reason”) (from Old Norse h?f (“measure, reason”)), Old English m?þ (“measure, degree”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m???/
• (regional US) IPA^(key): /?me???/
• Rhymes: -???(?)
• Hyphenation: meas?ure; mea?sure

Noun

measure (plural measures)

1. A prescribed quantity or extent.
   1. (obsolete) Moderation, temperance. [13th-19th c.]
      • c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I:

        Mesure is medcynee · þou? þow moche ?erne.

      • 1611, Bible, Authorized Version, Jer. XXX:

        I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished.

   2. A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.) [from 14th c.]
      • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, V:

        Full to the utmost measure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend.

      • 2009, Mike Selvey, The Guardian, 25 Aug 2009:

        They have gloried to this day, the tedious interminable big-screen replays of that golden summer irritating beyond measure.

   3. An (unspecified) portion or quantity. [from 16th c.]
      • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]:

        It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.

2. The act or result of measuring.
   1. (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance. [from 14th c.]

   2. A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion. [from 14th c.]

   3. Any of various standard units of capacity. [from 14th c.]

   4. A unit of measurement. [from 14th c.]
      • 1993, Scientific American February 33.3:

        The fragments shrank by increments of about three kilodaltons (a measure of molecular weight).

   5. The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.) [from 14th c.]

      • The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

   6. (now rare) The act or process of measuring. [from 14th c.]

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

   7. A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements. [from 16th c.]
   8. (mathematics, now rare) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor. [from 16th c.]

      the greatest common measure of two or more numbers

   9. (geology) A bed or stratum. [from 17th c.]

      coal measures; lead measures

   10. (mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like. [from 20th c.]
3. Metrical rhythm.
   1. (now archaic) A melody. [from 14th c.]
   2. (now archaic) A dance. [from 15th c.]
   3. (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot. [from 15th c.]

      a poem in iambic measure

   4. (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar. [from 17th c.]
4. A course of action.
   1. (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans. [from 17th c.]
   2. A piece of legislation. [from 18th c.]

Synonyms

• (musical designation): bar
• (unit of measurement): metric

Hyponyms

• (mathematics): positive measure, signed measure, complex measure, Borel measure, ?-finite measure, complete measure, Lebesgue measure

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

measure (third-person singular simple present measures, present participle measuring, simple past and past participle measured)

1. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.

2. To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)

3. To estimate the unit size of something.

4. To judge, value, or appraise.
5. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
6. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
   • 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds

     "And for a very sensible reason; there never was but one like her; or, that is, I have always thought so until to-day," replied the tar, glancing toward Natalie; "for my old eyes have seen pretty much everything they have got in this little world. Ha! I should like to see the inch of land or water that my foot hasn't measured."

7. To adjust by a rule or standard.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     To secure a contented spirit, you must measure your desires by your fortune and condition, not your fortunes by your desires

8. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

   • With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

   • That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• “measure”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• measure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• measure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• measure at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Reaumes