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Prevention for the future is now almost universally allowed to be the only rational plea for the infliction of punishment; but this, when left to the arbitrary discretion of individuals, always has been found, and always will be found, to degenerate into the exercise of revenge for the past.

Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
1867 C. Handfield Jones, Case Of Low Fever: Delirium: Incomplete Dementia. The British Medical Journal Vol. 2, No. 344, Aug. 3

Temperature 99.8 degrees. Pulse 104. She was quite conscious and rational at times, at others very noisy.

''¾ is a rational number, but √2 is an irrational number.''

Of an algebraic expression in indeterminates, or more generally a function: capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomials.
Of a variety: (''informally'') geometrically simple almost everywhere; (''formally'') birationally equivalent to space
Of a function between varieties: acting as a morphism on an open subset of its domain.
Of a point on an variety over a field: whose coordinates belong to the field in question (in contrast to those points of the variety which are only defined over the closed|algebraic closure of the base field).
Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; said of formulae.
Expressing a physical object.
A number: a number that can be expressed as the quotient of two integers.
The breastplate worn by Israelite high priests.
(RQ:Douay Bible)
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