What is the meaning of rational?

Consistent with or based on or using reason.
- usage: "rational behavior"; "a process of rational inference"; "rational thought"
Of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind.
- usage: "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"
- synonyms: intellectual, noetic
Capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers.
- usage: "rational numbers"
Having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion. )
- usage: "a rational analysis"

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