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rational form

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noun

Mathematics.
  1. a quotient of two polynomials with integral coefficients.


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For the transformed reciprocal squared function, we find the rational form.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Hegel, Fukuyama said, had written of a moment when a perfectly rational form of society and the state would become victorious.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

In the early 20th century, the great sociologist Max Weber noted that the rise of mechanization and increase in scale would lead a more rational form of  organization.

From Forbes • Jul. 17, 2015

“I prefer to focus on a slightly more rational form of science.”

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2012

The Republic is, in my opinion, the only rational form of government, the only one worthy of the nations.

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor