36 Metaphors for rate

In mechanical compounds, such as air or brass, the rate of vibration of the compound is the least common multiple of the two or more rates.

The corrections are not to be applied for (D) and (E), so we have only to regard (A) × (B) × (C), that this 2681 × 74/100 × 1539/1700 1796 77 - = = 2911 × 86/100 × 1585/1700 2334 100 In other words, the rate of supply in towns to the next adult generation is only 77 per cent., or, say, three-quarters of that in the country.

For example, the usual rate of appraisement is a dollar per week for the remainder of the term; but if the apprentice is particularly sober, honest, and industrious, more particularly if he be a pious man, he is valued at the rate of two or three dollars per week.

Among firms unsheltered by a monopoly, and exposed to the full force of capitalist competition, the rate of profit is also at "the minimum of subsistence," that is to say, if higher wages were paid to the employés, the rate of profit would either become a negative quantity, or would be so low that capital could no longer be obtained for investment in such a trade.

The average ad valorem rates under the nearly four years of the act of 1857 were about 20 per cent on dutiable and 16 per cent on free and dutiable (the lowest in the century between 1812 and 1913).

The Constitution, for instance, gives the Federal government the powers of coining money and laying import duties, and forbids these powers to the states; but the rate of interest, marriage and divorce, and the descent of property are matters not mentioned in the Constitution, and concerning which the states retain the power to make laws.

The low birth-rate of France, as compared with Italy, is a fact of deep and permanent importance.

By a manuscript of the fourteenth century, moreover, it is shown that the rate of mortality in Paris was then one in sixteen,one person dying annually to every sixteen of the inhabitants.

The metabolic rate is thus a gauge of the energy pressure within the organism.

At birth the rate is about 140 times a minute, in early infancy, 120 or upwards, in the healthy adult between 65 and 75, the most common number being 72.

The lowest possible rate is three rupees or about one dollar in our money.

The rate of descent of the moving head will be 0.024 inch per minute.

By gradual degrees village rates are becoming a serious burden, and though their chief incidence may be upon the landlord and the tenant, indirectly they begin to come home to the labourer.

Among other matters often discussed were the English birth-rate and the rearing of English children, points which deeply interested M. Zola, as they were germane to the subject of 'Fecondite.'

But Lamb himself says that the rate for him was twenty guineas a sheet, a sheet being sixteen pages; and he told Moore that he had received £170 for two years' Elia.

The decision in Munn v. Illinois, subject to court review as to whether the rate be confiscatory, remains good law, but the opinion is still open to question; and indeed the most recent decisions of the Supreme Court show a desire to get away from it.

The average rates for the next seven years, 1884-1890, were 45 on dutiable (an increase of nearly 2 per cent) and 30 on free and dutiable (unchanged as compared with the period ending 1883).

He could not be sure, for while they showed on the chart, he could not exactly determine the position of the ship when she struck, as no observation had been taken since the previous noon, and the rate of sailing under the force of the gale was mere guesswork.

The rate of travelling was about 10 miles an hour.

The rates of duty imposed by it on some articles are prohibitory and on others so high as greatly to diminish importations and to produce a less amount of revenue than would be derived from lower rates.

Suppose that the trade between England and Germany in cloth and linen is established, and that the rate of interchange is 10 yards of cloth for 17 of linen.

The rate of profit is the proportion which the profit bears to the capital; which the surplus produce after replacing the outlay, bears to the outlay.

The rates of these loans and the circumstances under which they have been made are confirmations of the high state of our credit abroad.

The standard rate may be a piece price or a time price, and in many cases the unions strive to secure the latter as more convenient for their purposes.

The rates, which are determined by the government, are, from fast stations, about seven cents a mile for a horse and two-wheeled conveyance or sledge; but from slow stations they are scarcely more than half that price.

36 Metaphors for  rate