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in proportion1According to a particular relationship in size, amount, or degree: the pension was docked in proportion to earnings...- Once they compensated for this response, the team deciphered the crumpled sheet's behavior and found that the force required for compression increases in proportion to the size of the scrunched sheet raised to a negative power.
- This pair of 3D models show what a man would look like if his body parts were sized in proportion to the area of the brain concerned with its sensory perception or its movement.
- A big note needs a big stick to create the correct effect and the sizes go down in proportion with the notes.
1.1In comparison with; in relation to: the cuckoo’s eggs are unusually small in proportion to its size...- Through much of the eighteenth century, muntins, the thin bars that divide panes of glass in a window sash, were relatively shallow in proportion to their depth.
- Modulation involves raising or lowering the frequency of the carrier wave in proportion to the analogue signal.
- It seems that the risks then are higher in proportion to the actual benefit these masts will provide.
Synonyms relative to, proportionate to, proportional to, commensurate with, corresponding to 2In the correct or appropriate relation to the size, shape, or position of other things: her figure was completely in proportion...- He said other studies of female attractiveness showed that when images of real women are examined, whether their figure is in proportion was considered the most important feature.
- The argument for authenticity also hinges on the assumption that the footprints show a foot skeleton unique in proportion relative to human feet.
- Accuracy in proportion and a high level of anatomical detail are equally important.
2.1Correctly or realistically regarded in terms of relative importance or seriousness: the problem of hooliganism has to be kept in proportion...- By all accounts, it was an isolated incident involving at worst only one or two people in a crowd of 1,600, so it must be kept in proportion.
- However, the threat must be kept in proportion.
- Impressive as the quantities of imports from outside Europe undoubtedly were, they still need to be kept in proportion.
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