rational
/ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/
Capable of reasoning; Capable of reasoning.; Behaving according to some partial order of preferences; Logically sound
- comparative
- more rational
- superlative
- most rational
Meanings
- 1
Capable of reasoning
Man is a rational animal.
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Although the arguments were rational, he was not convinced.
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- 2
Capable of reasoning.; Behaving according to some partial order of preferences
- 3
Logically sound; not self-contradictory or otherwise absurd
- 4
Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness
- 5
Comprising, or expressible as, a ratio; Of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integersrare
- 6
Comprising, or expressible as, a ratio; Of an algebraic expression in indeterminates, or more generally a function: capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomialsrare
- 7
Comprising, or expressible as, a ratio; Of a variety: (informally) geometrically simple almost everywhere; (formally) birationally equivalent to projective spacerare
- 8
Comprising, or expressible as, a ratio; Of a function between varieties: acting as a morphism on an open subset of its domainrare
- 9
Comprising, or expressible as, a ratio; Of a point on an algebraic variety over a field: whose coordinates belong to the field in question (in contrast to those points of the variety which are only defined over the algebraic closure of the base field)rare
- 10
synonymous replacement for "condensed" in condensed formularare