ratio

noun

1. 1

   A number representing a comparison between two named things.

   Scientists believe that the sex ratio is equal at conception, explained Steven Orzack, president and senior research scientist of the Fresh Pond Research Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

   On Monday, the issuer announced the addition of four new transfer partners — three airlines and one hotel chain — to its credit card rewards program, along with improved transfer ratios for several existing partners.

2. 2

   The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).

3. 3

   The number of comments to a post or other expression on social media relative to the number of likes; a high ratio suggests disagreement with the contents of the original post.

4. 4

   Variant of ratio decidendiEllipsis of ratio decidendi.

verb

1. 1

   To respond to a post or message on social media in a greater number than the number of likes the post receives, especially to condemn or mock the original poster.

   The politician's post was quickly ratioed due to its controversial nature.

   “Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire a**hole,” the protester yelled. “Go back to getting ratioed on Twitter. Go back to Davos with the other billionaire elites who think they know how to run the world. That’s not what democracy is.”

   It used to be fun to watch tweets like that get ratioed back into their ugly corner of the internet.

   Cue the goading Trump tweet (“Howard Schultz doesn’t have the ‘guts’ to run for President!”), the Twitter ratioing and the outrage from the left.

interjection

1. 1

   Indicates disagreement with a post the user disagrees with or dislikes.

   L + ratio

   "Ratio. YoungBoy is better." "What?" "Make better music. You fell off."

Forms

plural

ratios, rationes

past tense

ratioed, ratio'd

past participle

ratioed, ratio'd

present participle

ratioing

third person singular

ratios