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.

Related words: (words related to SUBDUPLE)

• 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
• 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,
• 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
• 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