the quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other 比;比率;比例 the ratio of men's jobs to women's is 8 to 1. 男性與女性工作崗位的比例是8比1。
語(yǔ)源
mid 17th cent.: from Latin, literally reckoning', from rat- 'reckoned', from the verb reri