rational
noun
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L326379 on Wikidata ↗adjective
- logical
- expressible as the quotient of integers (math)
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/
adj
Etymology: From Old French rationel, rational, from Latin rationalis (“of or belonging to reason, rational, reasonable; having a ratio”), from ratio (“reason; calculation”).
- Capable of reasoning.
“Man is a rational creature.”
“The utility of valid arguments is a monument to our frailty: to the fact that we are not completely rational beings.”
- Capable of reasoning.
- Logically sound; not self-contradictory or otherwise absurd.
“His statements were quite rational.”
“Prevention for the future is now almost universally allowed to be the only rational plea for the infliction of punishment; but this, when left to the arbitrary discretion of individuals, always has been found, and always will be found, to degenerate into the exercise of revenge for the past.”
- Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
“rational conduct”
“Temperature 99.8 degrees. Pulse 104. She was quite conscious and rational at times, at others very noisy.”
- Comprising, or expressible as, a ratio
“¾ is a rational number, but √2 is an irrational number.”
- Comprising, or expressible as, a ratio
- Comprising, or expressible as, a ratio
- Comprising, or expressible as, a ratio
- Comprising, or expressible as, a ratio
- synonymous replacement for "condensed" in condensed formula.
noun
Etymology: From Old French rational, from Medieval Latin rationale (“a pontifical stole, a pallium, an ornament worn over the chasuble”), neuter of Latin rationalis (“rational”), for which see the first etymology. Translation of λογεῖον (logeîon) or perhaps λόγιον (lógion, “oracle”) in the Septuagint version of Exodus 28.
- The breastplate worn by Israelite high priests.
“The Rationale of iudgement alſo thou shalt mke with embrodered worke of diuers colours, according to the workmanship of the Ephod of gold, hyacinth, and purple, and ſcarlet twiſe died, and twiſted ſilke.”