rational number

See also: rational-number

English

Etymology

From rational +‎ number, ultimately from Latin rationalis + numerus. Compare analogous logarithm, from Ancient Greek.

Noun

rational number (plural rational numbers)

1. (mathematics) A number that can be expressed as the ratio of two integers.

Antonyms

• irrational number

Hypernyms

• real number
• p-adic number

Hyponyms

• integer
  • natural number

Translations

quotient of integers

• Afrikaans: rasionale getal (af)
• Armenian: ռացիոնալ թիվ (ṙacʻional tʻiv)
• Catalan: nombre racional m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有理數 / 有理数 (zh) (yǒulǐshù)

• Czech: racionální číslo n
• Danish: rationelt tal n
• Dutch: rationaal getal n
• Esperanto: racionala nombro (eo)
• Finnish: rationaaliluku (fi)
• French: nombre rationnel (fr) m
• German: rationale Zahl (de) f
• Greek: ρητός αριθμός (el) m (ritós arithmós)
• Hungarian: racionális szám (hu)
• Icelandic: ræð tala f
• Italian: numero razionale (it) m
• Japanese: 有理数 (ja) (ゆうりすう, yūrisū)
• Kazakh: рационал сан (rasional san)
• Korean: 유리수(有理數) (ko) (yurisu)
• Latin: numerus rationalis m
• Macedonian: рациона́лен број m (racionálen broj)
• Maori: tauwehe whakahau
• Norwegian: rasjonalt tall (no) n
• Polish: liczba wymierna (pl) f
• Portuguese: número racional (pt) m
• Romanian: număr rațional (ro) n
• Russian: рациона́льное число́ (ru) n (racionálʹnoje čisló)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рaционaлни број m

  Roman: racionalni broj m

• Spanish: número racional (es) m
• Swedish: rationellt tal (sv)
• Tagalog: bilang na tagwayin
• Turkish: rasyonel sayı (tr)
• Vietnamese: số hữu tỉ (vi)