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RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does respiratory quotient mean?

• RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT (noun)
The noun RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT has 1 sense:

1. the ratio of the volume of carbon dioxide expired to the volume of oxygen consumed by an organism or cell in a given period of time

Familiarity information: RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The ratio of the volume of carbon dioxide expired to the volume of oxygen consumed by an organism or cell in a given period of time

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Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("respiratory quotient" is a kind of...):

ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))

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