Reason (disambiguation)

The term reason can refer to:

Philosophy

• La Reason is the power by which the human being can proceed. Ability man has to think. Faculty or power of the human soul whose activity is to obtain conclusions from known premises...

Literature

• Reason is a short story of science fiction by Isaac Asimov published in 1941.
• Reason for love is a century poemXIII.

Math

• Reason or quotient between two similar quantities.
  • The arithmetic reason of two quantities or subtract of such quantities.
  • The geometric ratio of two quantities or quotient of such quantities.
  • The simple reason of three numbers, or the quotient of the differences between the first and each other two.
  • The double reason of four numbers a, b, c and d, or the quotient between the simple reason a, c and d and the simple reason b, c and d.
  • The harmonic reason, which is that double reason worth -1.
  • The golden reason represented by the Greek letter φ, constant equal to 1+52{displaystyle {frac {1+{sqrt {5}}}{2}}}}
  • The trigonometric reasons, or each of the quotients between sides of a rectangle triangle, taken from two to two. They are breast, cosine, tangent and their inverses: cosecant, secant and cotangent.

Economy

• Financial ratios are coefficients or reasons that provide accounting and financial units of measure and comparison.
• Social reason is name and signature by which a commercial company is known collectively, command or anonymous.

Furthermore

• State is a term coined by Nicolas Machiavelli to refer to the exceptional measures that a ruler has in order to preserve or increase the health and strength of a State.
• Stationary wave. Measure of the energy sent by the transmitter that is reflected by the transmission system and returns to the transmitter
• Reason, Polish anticlerical political party.
• Several newspapers carry this term, see: The Reason.
• In education it is the term used to establish the number of pupils assigned to a teacher.