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Word Meanings - SUBDUPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Indicating one part of two; in the ratio of one to two. Subduple ratio, the ratio of 1 to 2: thus, 3:6 is a subduple ratio, as 6:3 is a duple ratio.

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  • RATIOCINATE
    To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.
  • RATIONALIZATION
    The act or process of rationalizing.
  • RATIONALISTIC; RATIONALISTICAL
    Belonging to, or in accordance with, the principles of rationalism. -- Ra`tion*al*is"tic*al*ly, adv.
  • RATIOCINATION
    The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
  • RATION
    1. A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence. Note: Officers have several rations, the number varying according to their rank or the number of their attendants. 2. Hence,
  • INDICATOR
    A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part; as: An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at
  • INDICATIVELY
    In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify.
  • RATIONALLY
    In a rational manner.
  • RATIONALITY
    The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness. When God has made rationality the common portion of mankind, how came it to be thy inclosure Gov. of Tongue. Well-directed
  • RATIONAL
    A rational being. Young.
  • RATIOCINATORY
    Ratiocinative.
  • INDICATED
    Shown; denoted; registered; measured. Indicated power. See Indicated horse power, under Horse power.
  • RATIONALIST
    One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist.
  • INDICATORY
    Serving to show or make known; showing; indicative; signifying; implying.
  • DUPLE
    Double. Duple ratio , that in which the antecedent term is double the consequent, as of 2 to 1, 8 to 4, etc.
  • RATIOCINATIVE
    Characterized by, or addicted to, ratiocination; consisting in the comparison of proportions or facts, and the deduction of inferences from the comparison; argumentative; as, a ratiocinative process. The ratiocinative meditativeness of
  • INDICATE
    To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants. (more info) pref. in- in + dicare to proclaim; akin to dicere to say. See 1. To point out; to discover;
  • INDICATRIX
    A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to
  • SUBDUPLE
    Indicating one part of two; in the ratio of one to two. Subduple ratio, the ratio of 1 to 2: thus, 3:6 is a subduple ratio, as 6:3 is a duple ratio.
  • RATIONALNESS
    The quality or state of being rational; rationality.
  • MIGRATION
    The act of migrating.
  • COMMISERATION
    The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak. Syn. -- See Sympathy.
  • COINDICATION
    One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
  • DEDECORATION
    Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey.
  • INCARCERATION
    1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
  • EXULCERATION
    1. Ulceration. Quincy. 2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.
  • IMPREPARATION
    Want of preparation. Hooker.
  • IRRATIONAL
    Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of
  • REVERBERATION
    The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame
  • ELABORATION
    The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,
  • REMONSTRATION
    The act of remonstrating; remonstrance. Todd.
  • FISSURATION
    The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.
  • EVAPORATION
    See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.
  • OBDURATION
    A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
  • SUPERTUBERATION
    The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing.
  • TRACTORATION
    See PERKINISM

 

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