Rate
Rate may refer to any of the following:
1. With money, rate is the price charged for a good or service. For example, with online advertising, the advertising rate is how much a company charges for so many page views or clicks. If a company or individual is popular or in-demand, they may have a higher rate than others.
2. When describing a measurement, the rate describes an amount or quantity related to another value, usually time. For example, a computer monitor may have a refresh rate of 75 Hz, which is how often (e.g., 75) the screen is redrawn every second. In mathematics, the word "per" is used to separate the units of measurement. For example, a monitor's refresh rate could be written as "75 Hz per second."
Computer-related rate terms
Below are computer-related rate terms.
- Bounce rate
- Click rate
- Clock rate
- Data transfer rate
- DDR (Double Data Rate)
- Error rate
- Frame rate
- Rate-adaptive DSL (Digital Subscriber Line)
- Refresh rate
- Sampling rate
- Tier list
- Transfer rate
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3. A rating is a number assigned to a product or service that helps give a better understanding of its quality. For example, a game reviewer may give a game an "8.5" out of "10" rating for a game indicating how much they enjoyed playing the game. A higher rating number is better than a lower number.