See also: incorporation. INFUSION, med. jur. A pharmaceutical operation, which consists in pouring a hot or cold fluid upon a substance, whose medical properties it is desired to extract. Infusion is also used for the product of this operation.
A proportion is an equation with a ratio on each side. It is a statement that two ratios are equal. 3/4 = 6/8 is an example of a proportion. When one of the four numbers in a proportion is unknown, cross products may be used to find the unknown number.
quotient - the ratio of two quantities to be divided. proportion - the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole. ratio - the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient) number - a concept of quantity involving zero and units; every number has a unique position in the sequence.