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.
Find 3Ã·12 = 0.25 and 36Ã·72 = 0.5. The quotients are not equal â> the ratios are not equal. You can also use decimals and percents to compare two quantities. In our example of squares to circles, we could say that the number of squares is five-tenths of the number of circles, or 50%.