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Capable of reasoning.
- Man is a rational creature.
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Capable of reasoning.; Behaving according to some partial order of preferences.
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Logically sound; not self-contradictory or otherwise absurd.
- His statements were quite rational.
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Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
- rational conduct
- Temperature 99.8 degrees. Pulse 104. She was quite conscious and rational at times, at others very noisy.
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Comprising, or expressible as, a ratio; Of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integers.not-comparable
- ¾ is a rational number, but √2 is an irrational number.
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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 polynomials.not-comparable
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Comprising, or expressible as, a ratio; Of a variety: (informally) geometrically simple almost everywhere; (formally) birationally equivalent to projective spacenot-comparable
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Comprising, or expressible as, a ratio; Of a function between varieties: acting as a morphism on an open subset of its domain.not-comparable
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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).not-comparable
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synonymous replacement for "condensed" in condensed formula.obsolete
ant. absurd · irrational · nonsensical · arbitrary · arational · non-rational