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protection ratio

British

noun

the minimum acceptable ratio between the amplitudes of a wanted radio or television broadcast signal and any interfering signal

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In nonparalytic polio, the protection ratio was only about 3 to 2, but final returns were expected to show that the disease had been milder, on the average, in vaccinated children.

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