proportion
IPA: prʌpˈɔrʃʌn
noun
- (countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
- (uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
- (countable) Proper or equal share.
- The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
- (mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios.
- (mathematics, archaic) The "rule of three", in which three terms are given to find a fourth.
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.
verb
- (transitive) To divide into proper shares; to apportion.
- (transitive) To form symmetrically.
- (transitive, art) To set or render in proportion.
- (transitive, archaic) To correspond to.
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Examples of "proportion" in Sentences
- "It's only my sense o 'duty, an' o 'what you call proportion," said
- The requirements grow linearly, in proportion to the number of folk.
- I understand this is a slippery slope, as in proportion to the United States most states look tiny.
- No capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
- The change in proportion is also moderated by the assumption that population growth is all in England but I want to err on the side of caution.
- Although ANCs provide some benefits to their shareholders, those benefits may not be in proportion to the potential for waste, fraud and abuse created by the ANCs 'contracting preferences.
- When one proportion of a body is combined with two or more proportions of anotlier, it seems to enter with more difficulty into new combinations, than when it is combined wiUi one proportion*
- I assumed that government pay-outs would fall in proportion with the loss in social security tax revenue i.e. responsibility for current government benefits due would go to the private firm or cease.
- There were no pre-hispanic “Filipinos” as a distinct cultural group, but instead a lot of separate tribes with their own cultures, the variation between which grows in proportion to their distance from each other.
- Although generally attributed to Leonardo Pisano, il Figlio di (son of) Bonacci, this proportion is also found in the measurements of the Ark of the Covenant (Exodus 25): 2.5 cubits long by 1.5 cubits wide and high (1.5/2.5 = 0.6).
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