Medical Dictionary
rate
noun \ˈrāt\
Medical Definition of RATE
1
: a fixed ratio between two things
2
: a quantity, amount, or degree of something measured per unit of something else—see death rate, heart rate, metabolic rate, pulse rate, sedimentation rate
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