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Rate

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Rate or rates may be:

  • Rate (mathematics), a specific kind of ratio, in which two measurements are related to each other
  • Rate of travel, or velocity
  • Naval rating or rate, terms used to designate specialty or seniority of enlisted naval personnel.
  • Rate of a ship, a term for a sail ship's firepower in the British Royal Navy
  • Bit rate, number of bits that are processed per unit of time
  • Rates, a Portuguese parish and town located in the municipality of Póvoa de Varzim
  • Rates (tax) a type of property tax in the United Kingdom
In science and finance
In human growth
  • Birth rate, the childbirths per 1,000 people per year
  • Mortality rate, a measure of the number of deaths in some population
As an initialism