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Definition of "two-to-one" []

  • Designating, or pert. to, a gear for reducing or increasing a velocity ratio two to one. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "two-to-one" in a sentence
  • "■ I was told (but had no way to verify) that attendance at the Hugo Awards ceremony was 1,600 and topped the Masquerade by two-to-one."
  • "Undisturbed by recent perturbations is the fact that 40 percent of the adult population (and presumably a larger percentage of likely voters) are self-identified conservatives, outnumbering soi disant liberals by almost two-to-one."
  • "Latinos voted Democratic yesterday by better than two-to-one, and in California, where exit polls showed them supporting Jerry Brown over Meg Whitman by a 65 percent to 31 percent margin, they comprised 22 percent of the electorate."
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