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Definition of proportional in English: proportionaladjective prəˈpɔːʃ(ə)n(ə)lprəˈpɔrʃ(ə)n(ə)l 1Corresponding in size or amount to something else. the punishment should be proportional to the crime Example sentencesExamples - The circle sizes are proportional to the numbers of molecules they represent.
- Regardless of the particular model, the dollar impacts are small and roughly proportional to income.
- The amount of tiles left out will be proportional to the size of the tile.
- And it's got to be roughly proportional and roughly balanced, or else it breaks down.
- These odds are inversely proportional to the amount of your insurance payment.
- We may find that the numbers of collectors are proportional to modern population size or we may not.
- This shows countries drawn as geometric blocks whose size is proportional to the nation's total GDP.
- Broadly speaking biodiversity is proportional to the amount of area that you can develop it in.
- As such the amount paid in fees, proportional to the amount under management, has continued to increase.
- The effects of these gases were directly proportional to the amount inhaled by the soldier.
- Their ability to do so was assumed to be proportional to the size of their landholdings.
- The amount of injury is proportional to the duration and severity of the ischemia.
- History has shown that such groups will have voluntary, or involuntary, leaks proportional to the size of the group.
- The amounts produced are proportional to the size of the gland, whether this is increased benignly or by prostate cancer.
- Thus, the magnitude of the Effect is proportional to the size of the population that causes it.
- The stress generated by a situation seems to be inversely proportional to the amount of control you have over it.
- The amount produced is proportional to the cooking time and accumulates with a second and subsequent heating.
- Swords and knives, especially, were made to be directly proportional to the size of the user.
- I think the amount they complain is directly proportional to the amount of money they make.
- The intensity of the fluorescence is proportional to the amount of product being made.
Synonyms corresponding, proportionate, comparable, in proportion, pro rata, commensurate, equivalent, consistent, relative, correlated, correlative, analogous, analogical rare commensurable - 1.1Mathematics (of a variable quantity) having a constant ratio to another quantity.
Example sentencesExamples - Edge lengths are proportional to inferred protein distances.
- Variances were assumed to be proportional to the square of the observed distances.
- Gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between two objects.
- Instead the heat is inversely proportional to the square of the distance.
- The ratio of the squares of the periods of two planets is directly proportional to the ratio of the cubes of the radii of their orbits.
Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin proportionalis, from proportio(n-) (see proportion). Definition of proportional in US English: proportionaladjectiveprəˈpɔrʃ(ə)n(ə)lprəˈpôrSH(ə)n(ə)l 1Corresponding in size or amount to something else. the punishment should be proportional to the crime Example sentencesExamples - The circle sizes are proportional to the numbers of molecules they represent.
- The stress generated by a situation seems to be inversely proportional to the amount of control you have over it.
- These odds are inversely proportional to the amount of your insurance payment.
- The amount of injury is proportional to the duration and severity of the ischemia.
- Broadly speaking biodiversity is proportional to the amount of area that you can develop it in.
- The effects of these gases were directly proportional to the amount inhaled by the soldier.
- Thus, the magnitude of the Effect is proportional to the size of the population that causes it.
- History has shown that such groups will have voluntary, or involuntary, leaks proportional to the size of the group.
- Regardless of the particular model, the dollar impacts are small and roughly proportional to income.
- The amount produced is proportional to the cooking time and accumulates with a second and subsequent heating.
- And it's got to be roughly proportional and roughly balanced, or else it breaks down.
- As such the amount paid in fees, proportional to the amount under management, has continued to increase.
- Swords and knives, especially, were made to be directly proportional to the size of the user.
- The amount of tiles left out will be proportional to the size of the tile.
- The intensity of the fluorescence is proportional to the amount of product being made.
- This shows countries drawn as geometric blocks whose size is proportional to the nation's total GDP.
- I think the amount they complain is directly proportional to the amount of money they make.
- The amounts produced are proportional to the size of the gland, whether this is increased benignly or by prostate cancer.
- Their ability to do so was assumed to be proportional to the size of their landholdings.
- We may find that the numbers of collectors are proportional to modern population size or we may not.
Synonyms corresponding, proportionate, comparable, in proportion, pro rata, commensurate, equivalent, consistent, relative, correlated, correlative, analogous, analogical - 1.1Mathematics (of a variable quantity) having a constant ratio to another quantity.
Example sentencesExamples - Instead the heat is inversely proportional to the square of the distance.
- The ratio of the squares of the periods of two planets is directly proportional to the ratio of the cubes of the radii of their orbits.
- Gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between two objects.
- Variances were assumed to be proportional to the square of the observed distances.
- Edge lengths are proportional to inferred protein distances.
Usage Except in certain long-established phrases, such as proportional representation, the adjectives proportional and proportionate may be used interchangeably Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin proportionalis, from proportio(n-) (see proportion). |