…a measure, quantity, or frequency, typically one measured against another quantity or measure…
…have a higher opinion of (someone or something) than is deserved…
…underestimate the extent, value, or importance of (someone or something)…
…(in the UK) the interest rate set by the Bank of England for lending to other banks, used as the benchmark for interest rates generally…
…the number of bits per second that can be transmitted along a digital network…
…a local tax levied by a parish to finance the relief or support of the poor…
…the official or advertised price of a hotel room, on which a discount is usually negotiable…
…a person who switches from one credit card or mortgage provider to another in order to take advantage of special introductory offers…
…the maximum rate at which an amplifier can respond to an abrupt change of input level…
…the percentage of visitors to a particular website who navigate away from the site after viewing only one page…
…the annual percentage rate at which customers stop subscribing to a service or employees leave a job…
…the proportion of visitors to a web page who follow a hypertext link to a particular site…
…an exchange rate between two currencies computed by reference to a third currency, usually the US dollar…
…the ratio of deaths to the population of a particular area or during a particular period of time, usually calculated as the number of deaths per one thousand people per year…
…the frequency at which frames in a television picture, film, or video sequence are displayed…
…the rate at which air temperature falls with increasing altitude…
…the lowest rate of interest at which money may be borrowed commercially…
…the success rate of a sports team, typically in scoring goals or runs…
…the minimum interest rate set by the US Federal Reserve (and some other national banks) for lending to other banks…
…the value of one currency for the purpose of conversion to another…
…an increased rate of pay for overtime or for work performed under abnormal conditions…
…(formerly in the UK) the imposition of an upper limit on the rates leviable by a local authority…
…a coefficient of proportionality relating the rate of a chemical reaction at a given temperature to the concentration of reactant (in a unimolecular reaction) or to the product of the concentrations of reactants…
…the rate at which errors occur in the transmission of digital data…
…the annual income from an investment expressed as a proportion (usually a percentage) of the original investment…
…the rate at which atmospheric temperature decreases with increasing altitude in conditions of thermal equilibrium…
…the rate at which the body uses energy while at rest to maintain vital functions such as breathing and keeping warm…
…a mortgage whose rate of interest is adjusted periodically to reflect market conditions…
…an arrangement within the European Monetary System that allows the value of participating currencies to fluctuate to a defined degree in relation to each other so as to control exchange rates. Each currency is given a rate of exchange with the euro, from which it is allowed to fluctuate by no more than a specified amount; if it moves beyond this the government in question must alter its economic policies or reset the currency’s rate with the euro…
