golden ratio

golden ratio

English

A pentagram colored to distinguish its line segments of different lengths. The four lengths are in golden ratio to one another.

Noun

golden ratio (plural golden ratios)

1. (geometry) The irrational number (approximately 1.618), usually denoted by the Greek letter φ (phi), which is equal to the sum of its own reciprocal and 1, or, equivalently, is the square root of the sum of itself and 1.

   Synonyms: golden number, golden section

Hypernyms

• algebraic number
• algebraic integer
• irrational number
• quadratic integer

Translations

irrational number

Arabic: الرَقْم الذَهَبِيّ‎ (ar-raqm aḏ-ḏahabiyy) Bulgarian: златно сечение (zlatno sečenie) Chinese: Mandarin: 黃金分割／黄金分割 (zh) (huángjīn fēngē) Czech: zlatý řez (cs) m Danish: gyldne snit n, guddommelige forhold n, det gyldne snit Dutch: gulden snede Esperanto: ora proporcio Estonian: kuldlõige Finnish: kultainen leikkaus (fi) French: nombre d’or (fr) m Georgian: ოქროს კვეთა (okros ḳveta) German: Goldener Schnitt (de) m Greek: χρυσή τομή f (chrysí tomí) Hebrew: יחס הזהב‎ Hungarian: aranymetszés (hu) Icelandic: gullinsnið Italian: sezione aurea (it) f Japanese: 黄金比 (おうごんひ ōgon hi), 黄金比率 (おうごんひりつ, ōgon hiritsu) Korean: 황금비 (ko) (hwanggeumbi) Latvian: zelta griezums Lithuanian: aukso pjūvi Luxembourgish: Gëllene Schnëtt Macedonian: златен пресек (zlaten presek) Persian: نسبت طلایی‎ Polish: złota proporcja f, złoty podział m Portuguese: proporção áurea Romanian: secțiunea de aur Russian: золото́е сече́ние n (zolotóje sečénije) Slovak: zlatý rez Slovene: zlati rez (sl) Spanish: número áureo m Swedish: gyllene snittet (sv) Thai: อัตราส่วนทองคำ (àtdraa sùan tong kam) Turkish: altın oran (tr) Ukrainian: золотий перетин (zolotyj peretyn) Vietnamese: tỷ lệ vàng

See also

• golden ratio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• divine proportion
• extreme ratio
• golden cut
• golden mean
• golden proportion
• golden rectangle
• golden section
• mean ratio
• sectio divina
• φ