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.
An equation says that two things are equal. It will have an equals sign = like this: 7 + 2 = 10 â 1. That equation says: what is on the left (7 + 2) is equal to what is on the right (10 â 1) So an equation is like a statement this equals that. Here is another equation: