5 sentences with 'ratio'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ratio and other words derived from it.
• « A well-known example of this was in Greek architecture, with the use of a mathematical concept known as the 'golden ratio' (also known as the 'golden number') which, when applied to construction, creates forms that the Greeks, and many others later, believed were inherently pleasing to the eye. »
• « A more scientific method is to calculate your waist-to-hip ratio, which is given by your minimum waist measurement (taken standing) divided by your maximum hip measurement (taken at the buttocks). If the ratio exceeds 0.85 for women or 0.95 for men, it is a sign of abdominal obesity. »
• « There is a 130-kilometre crater that occupies more than a quarter of the diameter of this Saturnian moon - thought to be the largest ratio of the size of a crater to the surface area of the satellite that shelters it. »
• « You will notice a slight ringing in your ears. Do not be alarmed. It is due to Venusian air pressure. Whereas on Earth the ratio is one kilogram per square centimetre, on Venus it is ninety kilograms per square centimetre. So we are now sailing as if we were sailing a thousand metres below sea level. »
• « In total, around 140,000 men served overseas for the Allied war effort. The war had a high cost on the country, with 11,625 New Zealand men killed, a ratio of 6684 dead per million in the population which was the highest rate in the Commonwealth. »