means A relationship between two quantities showing how many times one contains or compares to the other, often expressed as 'x to y' or a fraction.

from Straight from Latin 'ratio,' meaning 'reckoning, calculation, reason' — itself from 'reri,' to think or compute. The same root quietly powers 'rational' and 'reason.' For centuries it lived a tidy mathematical life, until social media drafted it into combat: to be 'ratioed' is to have your reply outnumbered by the replies dunking on it, the cruelest reckoning of all.