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{
"term": "ratio",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "the relationship between two groups of people or things that is represented by two numbers showing how much larger one group is than the other",
"sensetop": "ratio of A to B",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The school has a very high teacher-student ratio."
},
{
"text": "What is the ratio of men to women in the department?",
"contextForm": "ratio of A to B"
},
{
"text": "The ratio of applications to available places currently stands at 100:1."
},
{
"text": "Staffing ratios were generally better in smaller hospitals."
},
{
"text": "The hospital is trying to improve its staff/patient ratio."
},
{
"text": "The stock's price-earnings ratio has dropped to 24."
},
{
"text": "They have a high ratio of imports to exports."
},
{
"text": "Waist-to-hip ratios vary according to body type."
},
{
"text": "We mixed the oil and water in a ratio of one to five."
},
{
"text": "the ratio between the amount of time spent on the work and the profit produced"
},
{
"text": "the ratio of house prices to incomes"
},
{
"text": "the worsening pupil/teacher ratio in our schools"
}
],
"topics": ["Maths and measurement"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["high", "low", "gender"],
"verb + ratio": ["achieve", "have", "improve"],
"ratio + verb": ["improve", "worsen", "differ"],
"preposition": [
"in a/the ratio",
"ratio between",
"ratio of something to something"
]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈreɪʃiəʊ/",
"audio": "ra/ratio/ratio__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈreɪʃiəʊ/",
"audio": "ra/ratio/ratio__us_1_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘reckoning’, from rat- ‘reckoned’, from the verb reri."
}