| RR | radiation reaction; radiation response; rate ratio; rational recovery [group]; recovery room; relati... |
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| VNTR | variable number of tandem repeats; variable copy number tandem repeats |
| at | no atomic number |
| BHN | bephenium hydroxynaphthoate; Brinell hardness number |
| CAS-REGN | Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number |
| RET | Rational Emotive Therapy |
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| MPN | Most Probable Number |
| MUNE | Motor unit number estimate |
| MUNE | Motor unit number estimation |
| N | Number |
| rational | 1. Relating to reason; not physical; mental. "Moral philosophy was his chiefest end; for the rational, the natural, and mathematics . . . Were but simple pastimes in comparison of the other." (Sir T. North) 2. Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning. "It is our glory and happiness to have a rational nature." (Law) 3. Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as, rational conduct; a rational man. 4. <chemistry> Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; said of formulae. See Formula. Rational horizon. <astronomy> See Horizon, 2 . <mathematics> Rational quantity, one elicited by the statements of the patient himself and not as the result of a physical examination. Synonym: Sane, sound, intelligent, reasonable, sensible, wise, discreet, judicious. Rational, reasonable. Rational has reference to reason as a faculty of the mind, and is opposed to traditional; as, a rational being, a rational state of mind, rational views, etc. In these cases the speculative reason is more particularly, referred to. Reasonable has reference to the exercise of this faculty for practical purposes, and means, governed or directed by reason; as, reasonable prospect of success. "What higher in her society thou find'st Attractive, human, rational, love still." (Milton) "A law may be reasonable in itself, although a man does not allow it, or does not know the reason of the lawgivers." (Swift) Origin: L. Rationalis: cf. F. Rationnel. See Ratio, Reason, and cf. Rationale. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| rational drug design | <pharmacology> Modeling the molecular structure of the target of a drug, for example, an antigen, and then designing a drug that will attack it. (17 Dec 1997) |
| rational formula | In chemistry, a formula that indicates the constitution as well as the composition of a substance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rational surface | <physics> Magnetic flux surface where the ratio of toroidal to poloidal field strengths is a rational number, this means that a particle travelling along this surface makes an integer number of turns in each direction and then its orbit closes in on itself. The result is that the particle does not sample the entire flux surface in its motion, which is important for various technical reasons (which mostly result in reduced confinement). See: magnetic island. (09 Oct 1997) |
| rational therapy | Therapeutic procedures introduced by Albert Ellis and based on the premise that lack of information or illogical thought patterns are basic causes of a patient's difficulties; it is assumed that the patient can be assisted in overcoming his or her problems by a direct, prescriptive, advice-giving approach by the therapist. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychotherapy, rational-emotive | The replacement of illogical and unrealistic ideas with more realistic and adaptive ones through direct intervention and confrontation by the therapist. (12 Dec 1998) |
| atomic number | <chemistry> Symbol Z. The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom and also its characteristic atomic number. The atomic numbers of the known elements form a complete series from 1 (hydrogen) to 103 (lawrencium). (16 Dec 1997) |
| Avogadro's number | <physics> The number of molecules in a mole (gram molecular weight) of a substance, equals 6.02 x 1023 molecules. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Brinell hardness number | A number related to the size of the permanent impression made by a ball indenter of specified size (usually 10 mm in diameter) pressed into the surface of the material under a specified load: where P = applied load in kg, D = diameter of the ball in mm, and d = diameter of the impression in mm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| burst number | The number of viral particles that emerge from a cell after a viralinfection has burst it open. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Mach number | A number representing the ratio between the speed of an object moving through a fluid medium, such as air, and the speed of sound in the same medium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| magnetic mach number | <physics> A dimensionless number equal to the ratio of the velocity of a fluid to the velocity of Alfven waves in that fluid. (13 Nov 1997) |
| mass number | The mass of the atom of a particular isotope relative to hydrogen-1 (or to 1/12 the mass of carbon-12), generally very close to the whole number represented by the sum of the protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus of the isotope (indicated in the name or symbol of the isotope; e.g., oxygen-16, 16O); not to be confused with the atomic weight of an element, which may include a number of isotopes in natural proportion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Reichert-Meissl number | An index of the volatile acid content of a fat; the number of milliliters of 0.1 n KOH required to neutralise the soluble volatile fatty acids in 5 g of fat that has been saponified, acidified to liberate the fatty acids, and then steam-distilled. Synonym: volatile fatty acid number. (05 Mar 2000) |
| volatile fatty acid number | An index of the volatile acid content of a fat; the number of milliliters of 0.1 n KOH required to neutralise the soluble volatile fatty acids in 5 g of fat that has been saponified, acidified to liberate the fatty acids, and then steam-distilled. Synonym: volatile fatty acid number. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rational number | an integer or a fraction |
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