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Rate

Value, measure, or degree; a charge, payment, or price determined through the application of a mathematical formula or based upon a scale or standard.

For example, an interest rate is determined by the ratio between the principal and interest.

Rate is also used synonymously with tax.

rate

noun amount, assessment, charge, cost, expense, fare, fee, hire, magno, obligation, pace, parvo emere, price, quotation, standard, tempo, valuation, value, velocity, worth
Associated concepts: legal rate of interest, rate of exchange

rate

verb aestimare, appraise, apprize, assess, class, classify, compute, determine, esteem, estimate, evaluate, figure, fix the price of, gauge, grade, judge, measure, merit, price, quantify, rank, reckon, set a value on, tag, value, weigh

RATE. A public valuation or assessment of every man's estate; or the ascertaining how much tax every one shall pay. Vide Pow. Mortg. Index, h.t.; Harr. Dig. h.t.; 1 Hopk. C. R. 87.

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The Effect of Metabolic Rate and Airflow Location and Frequency

Airflow perception and draught rating for varying thermal conditions

Metabolic rate was determined by sequential point measurements of water oxygen saturation using intermittent closed-chamber respirometry, where respirometry chambers were opened to flow-through between measurement bouts.

Energetics of byssus attachment and feeding in the green-lipped mussel Perna canaliculus

2) The other 60% of burned calories comes from your resting metabolic rate.

Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the number of calories metabolized at rest during 24 hours (L.

Alteration in body composition of female players in a third league volleyball bout

The research team plans to investigate why tropical birds have lower basal metabolic rates than temperate species.

Birds of paradise

Levels of resting oxygen consumption and characteristic of the metabolic rate curves would seem to be explained in part by the differences in behavior and ecology of the species.

The influence of circadian rhythms on the metabolism of the snake Bothrops jararaca (serpentes, viperidae)

75; that is, for a 4-fold increase in body mass, metabolic rate increases only 3-fold (Schmidt-Nielsen 1997, Savage et al.

Relationship of metabolic rate to body size in Orthoptera

At basal metabolism, the VO2 determines the overall metabolic rate of the body since the overall metabolic rate is directly coupled with hydrogen removal in the electron transport chain.

Measuring BMR in the Pulmonary Lab

You think you're being virtuous but in fact you're setting yourself up for a fall as your metabolic rate starts to slow down and your body has to work harder to lose weight.

It's time to change lifestyles; Real Life taste for health

The hard part about giving a standard number is that a dancer's need is based on their metabolic rate," she says.

In the know about H2O

10] (increase in metabolic rate with temperature) was 2.

Standard and routine metabolic rates of juvenile sandbar sharks (Carcharhinus plumbeus), including the effects of body mass and acute temperature change *

Your basal metabolic rate falls with weight loss, so the laws of physics are working against you," says Eckel.