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An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)

Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 298

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PROPORTION. 935. Definitions. — L The ratio of one quantity to another is the number of times whichthe first contains the second ; thus the ratio of 12 to 3 is four, because 12 contains3 four times; or, more universally, ratio is the comparative magnitude of one quan-tity with respect to another.…

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