rational form

noun

, Mathematics.

1. a quotient of two polynomials with integral coefficients.

Example Sentences

People have sometimes sold statistical discrimination as a softer or rational form of discrimination, but neither of them are okay.

From Freakonomics

But the conditions of flow are really more complicated than can be expressed in any rational form.

From Project Gutenberg

Hegel sought to understand and state in rational form the real nature of the Christian's conception of God.

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When one purchases the latest thing in ties or straw hats, one is not aiming at a rational form of dress.

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Loyalty, in a rational form, could not exist among an uneducated people; it could only exist as a feeling, a sentiment.

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The Republic is, in my opinion, the only rational form of government, the only one worthy of the nations.

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