rational form

noun

, Mathematics.

1. a quotient of two polynomials with integral coefficients.

Example Sentences

It doesn’t shame the shameless, and its inherent mean streak isn’t a rational form of argument.

From Washington Post

Fiction’s a social form, a coherent form, a rational form.

From The Guardian

Hegel, Fukuyama said, had written of a moment when a perfectly rational form of society and the state would become victorious.

From The New Yorker

Novel is a rational form: it processes the chaos of reality into narrative, gives it structure and form.

From The Guardian

Moreover, if you subsidize something, such as health-care spending, you get more of it, regardless of whether it’s the most rational form of compensation.

From Washington Post