national

adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country;

"national hero"; "national anthem"; "a national

landmark"

2: limited to or in the interests of a particular nation;

"national interests"; "isolationism is a strictly national

policy" [ant: {international}]

3: concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire

nation or country; "the national government"; "national

elections"; "of national concern"; "the national highway

system"; "national forests" [ant: {local}]

4: owned or maintained for the public by the national

government; "national parks"

5: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader

responsibilities than the United States Department of the

Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: {home(a)},

{interior(a)}, {internal}]

6: characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation; "a

national trait"

7: of or relating to nationality; "national origin"

n : a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has

a duty to his subjects" [syn: {subject}]

rational

[Mathematics] a fractional number n/d, where n and d are

integers, n is the numerator and d is the denominator. The

set of all rational numbers is usually called Q.

Computers do not usually deal with rational numbers but

instead convert them to {real} numbers which are represented

(approximately in some cases) as {floating-point} numbers.

Compare {irrational}.