Look up rate, rates, or rating in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rate or rates may refer to: Rates (tax), a type of taxation system in the United Kingdom...

countries by UNODC homicide rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 100,000 individuals per year. A homicide rate of 30 (out of 100,000) corresponds...

In finance, an exchange rate is the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another currency. Currencies are most commonly national currencies...

In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two...

The lapse rate is the rate at which an atmospheric variable, normally temperature in Earth's atmosphere, falls with altitude. Lapse rate arises from the...

Mortality rate, or death rate,: 189, 69  is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled...

Discount rate may refer to: Social discount rate (of consumption), the rate at which the weight given to future consumption decreases in economic models...

Heart rate is the frequency of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute (beats per minute, or bpm). The heart rate varies...

An interest rate is the amount of interest due per period, as a proportion of the amount lent, deposited, or borrowed (called the principal sum). The total...

Frame rate, most commonly expressed in frames per second or FPS, is typically the frequency (rate) at which consecutive images (frames) are captured or...

states and dependencies by total fertility rate (TFR): the expected number of children born per woman in her child-bearing years. The first lists show...

rate, also known as natality, is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population for a given period divided by the length of the period in...

Rate of fire is the frequency at which a specific weapon can fire or launch its projectiles. This can be influenced by several factors, including operator...

In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a first rate was the designation for the largest ships of the line. Originating...

In telecommunications and computing, bit rate (bitrate or as a variable R) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. The...

In mathematics, a rate is the quotient of two quantities in different units of measurement, often represented as a fraction. If the divisor (or fraction...

In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century...

In chemistry, the rate equation (also known as the rate law or empirical differential rate equation) is an empirical differential mathematical expression...

In cricket, a bowler's economy rate is the average number of runs they have conceded per over bowled. In most circumstances, the lower the economy rate...

In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system...

respiratory rate is the rate at which breathing occurs; it is set and controlled by the respiratory center of the brain. A person's respiratory rate is usually...

In machine learning and statistics, the learning rate is a tuning parameter in an optimization algorithm that determines the step size at each iteration...

by estimated suicide rates as published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other sources. In many countries, suicide rates are underreported due...

Strike rate refers to two different statistics in the sport of cricket. Batting strike rate is a measure of how quickly a batter achieves the primary goal...

A fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) is a mortgage loan where the interest rate on the note remains the same through the term of the loan, as opposed to loans where...

growth rate classification Any of a variety of growth rates classified by such things as the Landau notation Economic growth, the increase in value of...

For interest rate swaps, the Swap rate is the fixed rate that the swap "receiver" demands in exchange for the uncertainty of having to pay a short-term...

The reaction rate or rate of reaction is the speed at which a chemical reaction takes place, defined as proportional to the increase in the concentration...

Capitalization rate (or "cap rate") is a real estate valuation measure used to compare different real estate investments. Although there are many variations...

Data rate and data transfer rate can refer to several related and overlapping concepts in communications networks: Bit rate, the number of bits that are...