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Variation; prise fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation. They come at dear rates from Japan. Locke.

The relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another of the same kind. It is expressed by the quotient of the division of the first by the second; thus, the ratio of 3 to 6 is expressed by a to b by a/b; or (less commonly) the second is made the dividend; as, a:b = b/a.

Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulæ. See under Formula. Rational horizon. (Astron.) See Horizon, 2 (b). -- Rational quantity (Alg. ), one that can be expressed without the use of a radical sign, or in extract parts of unity; -- opposed to irrational or ra…

religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.

To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.

Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities. See the Phrases below. Reciprocal equation (Math.), one which remains unchanged in form when the reciprocal of the unknown quantity is substituted for that quantity. -- Reciprocal figures (G…

up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty. "Parfay," sayst thou, "sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer. To reckon for, to answer for; to pay the account for. "If they fail in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day." Bp. Sanderson.…

tes which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reëstablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.

A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, the rectum; as, recto-vesical.

To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote. Of those places that refer to the shutting and opening the abyss, I take notice of that in Job. Bp. Burnet.

Capable of being referred, or considered in relation to something else; assignable; ascribable. [Written also referrible.] It is a question among philosophers, whether all the attractions which obtain between bodies are referable to one general cause. W. Nicholson.

Relation; regard; respect. Something that hath a reference to my state. Shak.

consciousness; to use attention or earnest thought; to meditate; especially, to think in relation to moral truth or rules. We can not be said to reflect upon any external object, except so far as that object has been previously perceived, and its image become part and parcel of our intellectual furniture. Sir W. Hamilt…

r greatest elasticity for light; a biaxial crystal is similarly designated when the same relation holds for the acute bisectrix. -- Index of refraction. See under Index. -- Refraction circle (Opt.), an instrument provided with a graduated circle for the measurement of refraction. -- Refraction of latitude, longitude…

To look upon, as in a certain relation; to hold as an popinion; to consider; as, to regard abstinence from wine as a duty; to regard another as a friend or enemy.

To freeze together again; to undergo regelation, as ice.

A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.

To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; -- with to. All negative or privative words relate positive ideas. Locke.

Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric and magnetic forcec are closely related.

The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity. [R.] Emerson.