See also: incorporation. INFUSION, med. jur. A pharmaceutical operation, which consists in pouring a hot or cold fluid upon a substance, whose medical properties it is desired to extract. Infusion is also used for the product of this operation.
A proportion is an equation with a ratio on each side. It is a statement that two ratios are equal. 3/4 = 6/8 is an example of a proportion. When one of the four numbers in a proportion is unknown, cross products may be used to find the unknown number.
Ratio Definition. In mathematics, a ratio is a numerical comparison of 2 or more quantities which indicates their relative sizes. It can be considered as a way of comparing numbers by division. In a ratio of two numbers, the first value is termed the ancedent and the second number is the consequent. Ratios in Daily Life