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QUANTITATIVE RELATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A relation between magnitudes
Synonyms:
magnitude relation; quantitative relation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("quantitative relation" is a kind of...):
relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quantitative relation"):
scale (relative magnitude)
proportion; ratio (the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree)
ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))
rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)
