"rational number" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: rational numbers [plural]
Etymology: rational + number, ultimately from Latin rationalis + numerus. Compare analogous logarithm, from Ancient Greek. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|rational|number}} rational + number, {{der|en|la|rationalis}} Latin rationalis, {{m|la|numerus}} numerus, {{m|en|logarithm}} logarithm, {{cog|grc|-}} Ancient Greek Head templates: {{en-noun}} rational number (plural rational numbers)
  1. (mathematics) A number that can be expressed as the ratio of two integers. Categories (topical): Mathematics, Numbers Hypernyms: real number, p-adic number Hyponyms (integer): natural number Translations (quotient of integers): rasionale getal (Afrikaans), ռացիոնալ թիվ (ṙacʻional tʻiv) (Armenian), nombre racional [masculine] (Catalan), 有理數 (Chinese Mandarin), 有理数 (yǒulǐshù) (Chinese Mandarin), racionální číslo [neuter] (Czech), rationelt tal [neuter] (Danish), rationaal getal [neuter] (Dutch), racionala nombro (Esperanto), rationaaliluku (Finnish), nombre rationnel [masculine] (French), rationale Zahl [feminine] (German), ρητός αριθμός (ritós arithmós) [masculine] (Greek), racionális szám (Hungarian), ræð tala [feminine] (Icelandic), numero razionale [masculine] (Italian), 有理数 (yūrisū) (alt: ゆうりすう) (Japanese), рационал сан (rasional san) (Kazakh), 유리수 (yurisu) (alt: 有理數) (Korean), numerus rationalis [masculine] (Latin), рациона́лен број (racionálen broj) [masculine] (Macedonian), tauwehe whakahau (Maori), rasjonalt tall [neuter] (Norwegian), liczba wymierna [feminine] (Polish), número racional [masculine] (Portuguese), număr rațional [neuter] (Romanian), рациона́льное число́ (racionálʹnoje čisló) [neuter] (Russian), рaционaлни број [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), racionalni broj [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), número racional [masculine] (Spanish), rationellt tal (Swedish), bilang na tagwayin (Tagalog), rasyonel sayı (Turkish), số hữu tỉ (Vietnamese)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.