Aspect ratio

The aspect ratio of a two-dimensional shape is the ratio of its longest dimension to its shortest dimension.

The term is most commonly used with reference to:

images (see aspect ratio (image))
paper (see paper size)
the wing-plans of aircraft or birds (see aspect ratio (wing)).

This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.

Categories: Disambiguation