 | Thomas Hunter - 1878 - 142 pàgines
...the one by the other. 4. Proportion is an equality of ratios. 5. Three quantities are in proportion when the first is to the second as the second to the third. Four quantities are in proportion when the first is to the second as the third to the fourth. For example,... | |
 | C R. Lupton - 1879 - 194 pàgines
...three terms in a proportion be given, the fourth may be found from the equation ad=bc. 160. Hence if the first is to the second as the second to the third, the product of the extremes is equal to the square of the mean. Thus, if a : ь : : ъ : с then ас,... | |
 | 1910 - 1066 pàgines
...exemplified by father, mother and children. These three terms bear specific relations to one another; the first is to the second as the second to the third. Thus, in the great triad of the religious world — God, the Mediator, and Man — God is to the God-Man... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - 1910 - 1056 pàgines
...exemplified by father, mother and children. These three terms bear specific relations to one another; the first is to the second as the second to the third. Thus, in the great triad of the religious world — God, the Mediator, and Man — God is to the God-Man... | |
 | 1910 - 1050 pàgines
...exemplified by father, mother and children. These three terms bear specific relations to one another; the first is to the second as the second to the third. Thus, in the great triad of the religious world — God, the Mediator, and Man — God is to the God-Man... | |
 | 1910 - 1052 pàgines
...exemplified by father, mother and children. These three terms bear specific relations to one another; the first is to the second as the second to the third. Thus, in the great triad of the religious world — God, the Mediator, and Man — God is to the God-Man... | |
 | 1864 - 566 pàgines
...intermediate,) is that which lies between two extremes, and by which they communicate. Thus mean ratin is when the first is to the second as the second to the third. Cleans, as a substantive, seems to be good old English. Thus the Catechism says: " a means whereby... | |
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Proportion, when the ratio is the same between every two adjacent terms, viz. when the first is to the second, as the second to the third, as the third to the fourth, as the fourth to the fifth, and so on, all in the same common ratio. 
