proportionaladjective
uk/prəˈpɔː.ʃən.əl/us/prəˈpɔːr.ʃən.əl/also proportionate,If two amounts are proportional, they change at the same rate so that the relationship between them does not change:
Weight is proportional to size.
How far you go is directly proportional to how fast you go (= as one thing increases, the other increases at exactly the same rate).
There's a false idea that physical prowess and intellectual ability are inversely proportional (= as one gets bigger, the other gets smaller).
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Numerical relationships
- differential
- disproportionate
- function
- geometric(al) progression
- independent variable
- index
- inverse function
- inverse proportion
- pc
- percentage
- percentile
- pro rata
- proportion
- prorate
- ratio
- recursion
- set
- subset
- trinomial
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proportionally
adverb uk/prəˈpɔː.ʃən.əl.i/us/prəˈpɔːr.ʃən.əl.i/also proportionately,
Unemployment is proportionally much higher in the north of the country.