The influx of intelligence into the mind of a speaker, is in exact ratio with the knowledge he has acquired.
Shopkeepers have to make up their ratio of profits in the aggregate sales of the day.
For though our consciousness of the moral law is the ratio cognoscendi of freedom, transcendental freedom is the ratio essendi of the moral law.
Places declining from the poles have attractive forces, but a little weaker and languid in the ratio of their distance; so that at length on the aequinoctial circle they are utterly enervated and evanescent.
The ratio of the arcs on a parallel circle, when a versorium is moved toward continents which extend to the pole, corresponds with the degrees of variation.
On the Varying Ratio of Strength, and of the Motion of coition, within the orbe of virtue.
On the Varying Ratio of Strength, and of the Motion of coition, within the orbe of virtue.
In various species the ratio is various, for one stone of a drachm weight draws more than another of twenty pounds.
It adapted itself to circumstances, and finding certain beliefs prevalent among the people, it imbibed them, and thus gained by accretion until its bulk, both of beliefs and of disciples, was in the inverse ratio of its purity.
Since the breaking up of the feudal system and the disarrangement of the old social and moral standards, the statistics made annually from the official census show that the ratio of divorce to marriage is very nearly as one to three.
A high authority in encyclopaedical lore tells us that the best accredited authorities are at odds with regard to the birth or death of individuals in the enormous ratio of from twenty to twenty-five per cent.
The many letters and figures that indicate position on the shelves are difficult to remember in the directratio of their number.
To these must be added the great cost of binding files of journals, increasing in the direct ratio of the size of the volume.
In any library but the smaller ones, the difficulties and dangers of unrestricted handling of all the books by the public will be developed in the direct ratio of the size of the library.
But the difficulty and confusion arising from free handling of the books on shelves increases in the direct ratio of the size of the library, until, in an extensive collection, it reaches an intolerable result.
PQ represents any given deviation from the average value, and the ratio of PO to AB represents the relative probability of its occurrence.
It must equally discourage a breed that is incompetent to supply such men in sufficiently abundant ratio to the rest of the population to ensure the existence of tribes of not too large a size.
It was altogether repulsive to him, and he never entered into any calculation of the ratio between the Vicar's income and his more or less necessary expenditure.
The over-all gear or ratio of the system was the multiplication due to the double purchase of the plunger sheaves times the ratio of the chain and drive sprocket diameters: 2(12.
As greater rises were required, the multiplication of the ropes and sheaves was simply increased, raising the piston-car travel ratio and permitting the cylinder to remain of manageable length.
The ratio of lift to drag is a measure of the efficiency of a wing-section.
Owing to the increase in drag resulting from low aspect ratio (large chord relative to span) the higher the aspect ratio the more efficient the wing.
A, in music, is the sixth note in the diatonic scale of C, and stands when in perfect tune to the latter note in the ratio of 3/5 to 1.
A well-designed wing will have a L/D ratioat an angle of incidence of 4deg of about 16, i.
The interval between two notes is the ratio of the frequency of the higher note to the frequency of the lower note.
This is the fundamental Mendelian ratio for a single pair of characters; and from it may readily be deduced the more complicated combinations that appear when two or more pairs of characters are considered together.
The fundamental ratio for a single pair of characters is explained by a very simple assumption.
Dr Legge, however, whose logical are apparently in an inverse ratio to his linguistic powers, rushes wildly into the concrete, and declares that every falsehood told in China may be traced to the example of Confucius himself.
Nearly in the same ratio that labor was depressed capital was increased and concentrated by the British protective policy.
Thus they bear what one may call a different ratio to man,--that is to say, his power of walking and climbing enables him to accomplish less in a given time in these two greater than in the lesser ranges.
It is probable that this ratiomay be maintained so that when, thirty years hence, Argentina counts twenty millions of inhabitants, Buenos Aires will count four millions.
The ratio of silver and gold has fluctuated much in the history of civilization.
In Japan the ratio has been officially fixed at 32 to 1.
Parallelograms which are equiangular to one another, have to one another the ratio which is compounded of the ratios of their sides.
By the cross-ratio of four rays in a flat pencil is meant the cross-ratio of the four points in which the rays are cut by any line.
If C lies between A and B the ratio is positive, as AC and CB have the same sense.
If this cross-ratio equals -1 If this cross-ratio equals -1 the four points are said to be the four tangents are said to be four harmonic points.
If we take the points in a different order, the value of the cross-ratio will change.
From it we see at once that two rectangles have the ratio of their areas compounded of the ratios of their sides.
The definition is the same in each case: there is a one-one correspondence between the elements, and four elements have the same cross-ratio as the corresponding ones.
Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides.
This pencil is projective to the row, so that the cross-ratio of four poles in a row equals the cross-ratio of its four polars, which pass through the pole of the row.
It is generated by the lines which cut the faces of a tetrahedron in a constant cross ratio, and therefore by those subtending the same cross ratio at the four vertices.
This kind of popularity, like every other, is evanescent: and the difficulties of every kind with which he had to contend, increased in a frightful ratio compared with his small means of extricating himself.
They vitiate both, by making ourselves the great object of both, and by weakening the force of both in a ratio that increases rapidly with the increasing distance from that favourite centre.
From the very nature of the undertaking the ratio of progress increases at a rapid rate.
There are two other bridges on the same new route to be constructed, the ratio of expense of which will not materially vary.
It will be seen that the price agrees with the difficulty of procuring the stone, and in the ratio above stated, from ninety-three cents to $2.
It remains to repeat the question, Could such an amount of vegetable matter have been accumulated, short of millions of years, at the ratio of the present vegetative powers of the earth?
Because at the ratio of vegetable product of our age, the earth would not produce a sufficient amount to form the coalbeds, short of millions of years.
Periods of transition always involve much suffering, and the amount of suffering is generally in the inverse ratio of the precautions taken beforehand.
Illustration] When figuring the Ratio of Whirl Speed to Cylinder Speed we add 1/3 inch to the diameters to allow for the band.
A ratio which is best suited to coarse yarn is not the best for fine yarn.
