Rate

Rate or rates may refer to:

• Rate (mathematics), a specific kind of ratio, in which two measurements are related to each other
• Rate of travel, or velocity
• Naval rating or rate, terms used to designate specialty or seniority of enlisted naval personnel.
• Rate of a ship, a term indicating a sail ship's firepower in the British Royal Navy
• Bit rate, number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time
• Rates, a Portuguese parish and town located in the municipality of Póvoa de Varzim

In math and finance

• Rate function, a function used to quantify the probabilities of rare event
• Rates (tax), a type of taxation system used to fund local government
• Exchange rate, specifies how much one currency is worth in terms of the other

In human growth

• Birth rate, the natality or childbirths per 1,000 people per year
• Mortality rate, a measure of the number of deaths in some population

As an initialism

• Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth, a project of creation geophysics

See also

• All pages beginning with "Rate"
• All pages with titles containing "Rate"
• Rating (disambiguation)