0 the relationship between two groups or amounts that expresses how much bigger one is than the other -- 比;比例;比率
The staff to student ratio has increased dramatically in the last five years.
The efficiency of a machine is the ratio between the energy it supplies and the energy put into it.
Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
Nonetheless, ratios of post-harvest weights to pre-harvest weights reinforced the view that weight fluctuations were not uniformly large.
The squares are replaced by intermittent hexagonal patterns when the aspect ratio is increased.
The surface stresses (tensions) are functions of the local extension ratios, which depend on the global deformation of the membrane.