But the reluctance of companies to hire is causing pain in ways that the jobless rate does not measure.

In this sense, the rate measures the transmission speed and the quantity measures the overhead that occurs due to the encoding with the block code.

- that is, rates we measure today are assumed to be the same as rates throughout all history.

"The click rate doesn't measure the intensity of somebody's interest."

An open rate, for example, measures how many people successfully received and clicked open a specific promotional e-mail instead of deleting it.

Crude rates measure vital statistics in a general population (overall change in births and deaths per 1000).

Viewthrough rate (VTR) measures the number of post-impression response or viewthrough from display media impressions viewed during and following an online advertising campaign.

Since a rate of exchange measures the price of one currency in terms of another, its determination can be compared with the price of any other item.

The cyclic rate of circulation of money measures the amount of time required for a loan to pass through the productive system and return to the bank.