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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
Sense 1
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
Classified under:
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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