| ratification | (noun) making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it | Synonyms: confirmation |
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| ratified | (adjective) formally approved and invested with legal authority | Synonyms: sanctioned |
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| ratifier | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, indorser, subscriber |
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| ratify | (verb) approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation | Synonyms: sign |
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| rating | (noun) act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of | Synonyms: evaluation |
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| (noun) an appraisal of the value of something | Synonyms: evaluation, valuation |
| (noun) standing or position on a scale | - |
| (noun) rank in a military organization | Synonyms: military rank, military rating, paygrade |
| ratio | (noun) the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree | Synonyms: proportion |
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| (noun) the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient) | - |
| ratiocinate | (verb) reason methodologically and logically | - |
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| ratiocination | (noun) logical and methodical reasoning | - |
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| (noun) the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism) | Synonyms: conclusion |
| ratiocinative | (adjective) based on exact thinking | - |
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| ratiocinator | (noun) someone who reasons logically | Synonyms: reasoner |
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| ration | (noun) the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel) | - |
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| (noun) a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity) | - |
| (verb) distribute in rations, as in the army | Synonyms: ration out |
| (verb) restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war | - |
| rational | (adjective) consistent with or based on or using reason | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers | - |
| (adjective) having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion) | - |
| (adjective) of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind | Synonyms: intellectual, noetic |
| (noun) an integer or a fraction | Synonyms: rational number |
| rationale | (noun) (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) | Synonyms: principle |
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| rationalisation | (noun) systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale | Synonyms: rationalization, systematisation, systematization |
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| (noun) (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation | Synonyms: rationalization |
| (noun) the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency | Synonyms: rationalization |
| (noun) the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason | Synonyms: rationalization |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening | Synonyms: rationalization |
| rationalise | (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: cut, prune, rationalize |
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| (verb) remove irrational quantities from | Synonyms: rationalize |
| (verb) think rationally; employ logic or reason | Synonyms: rationalize |
| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologise, apologize, excuse, rationalize |
| (verb) structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results | Synonyms: rationalize |
| rationalism | (noun) the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct | Synonyms: freethinking |
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| (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience | - |
| (noun) the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth | - |
| rationalist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of rationalism | - |
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| (noun) someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes | Synonyms: positivist |
| rationalistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of rationalism | - |
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| rationality | (noun) the quality of being consistent with or based on logic | Synonyms: rationalness |
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| (noun) the state of having good sense and sound judgment | Synonyms: reason, reasonableness |
| rationalization | (noun) systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale | Synonyms: rationalisation, systematisation, systematization |
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| (noun) (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation | Synonyms: rationalisation |
| (noun) the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency | Synonyms: rationalisation |
| (noun) the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason | Synonyms: rationalisation |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening | Synonyms: rationalisation |
| rationalize | (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: cut, prune, rationalise |
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| (verb) remove irrational quantities from | Synonyms: rationalise |
| (verb) think rationally; employ logic or reason | Synonyms: rationalise |
| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologise, apologize, excuse, rationalise |
| (verb) structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results | Synonyms: rationalise |
| rationally | (adverb) in a rational manner | - |
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| rationalness | (noun) the quality of being consistent with or based on logic | Synonyms: rationality |
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| rationed | (adjective) distributed equitably in limited individual portions | - |
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| rationing | (noun) the act of rationing | - |
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| ratite | (noun) flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, rheas, kiwis, elephant birds | Synonyms: flightless bird, ratite bird |
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