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Rational

adjective

1.

Consistent with or based on or using reason. "A process of rational inference" , "Rational thought"

2.

Of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind. Synonyms: intellectual, noetic. "The triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"

3.

Capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers.

4.

Having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion).

noun

1.

An integer or a fraction. Synonym: rational number.

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"Rational" Quotes from Famous Books

... whether in this fertile soil an apparently accidental remark on the solid qualities of guinea-pigs or ferrets might haply blossom and bring forth fruit, when our governess appeared on the scene. Uncle George's manner at once underwent a complete and contemptible change. His interest in rational topics seemed, "like a fountain's sickening pulse," to flag and ebb away; and though Miss Smedley's ostensible purpose was to take Selina for her usual walk, I can vouch for it that Selina spent her morning ratting, along with the keeper's boy and me; while, if ...

— The Golden Age • Kenneth Grahame

... stuck here," he replied; He had rather a bright gray eye with greenish lights in it, and he looked rational enough. But there was ...

— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer

... essence bearing the same eternal characteristics as Brahman. But never, he had really found this self, because he had wanted to capture it in the net of thought. With the body definitely not being the self, and not the spectacle of the senses, so it also was not the thought, not the rational mind, not the learned wisdom, not the learned ability to draw conclusions and to develop previous thoughts in to new ones. No, this world of thought was also still on this side, and nothing could be achieved ...

— Siddhartha • Herman Hesse

... with his best portable furniture had vanished. At which Schloss, as above noticed, some disorders were committed by angry parties of the march;—doors burst open (doors standing impudently dumb to the rational proposals made them!), inferior remainders of furniture smashed into firewood, and the like,—no doubt to his Majesty's vexation. Here at Weichau stricter measures were taken: and yet difficulties, risks were not wanting; and the AMTMANN (Steward of the place) got pulled about, ...

— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

... has become more reasonable, and capable of discussing war questions impartially; and this was notably the case over the torpedoing of the Armenian. In a word, at no time since the outbreak of war have the omens been so favorable for a rational policy on ...

— My Three Years in America • Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff

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