proportion
Meaning of proportion
- a part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole.
the proportion of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is rising
- adjust or regulate (something) so that it has a particular or suitable relationship to something else.
a life after death in which happiness can be proportioned to virtue
late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin proportio(n- ), from pro portione ‘in respect of (its or a person's) share’.
Information about proportion
- The plural form of proportion is: proportions.
- Languages in which proportion is used:
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Hyphenation of proportion
pro-por-tion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- proportion is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
proportion synonyms
Meaning dimension:
Meaning symmetry:
Meaning proportionality:
Meaning an amount or section which, when combined with others, makes up the whole of something:
Meaning a part of a whole:
Meaning a quantity of something, especially the total of a thing or things in number, size, value, or extent:
Meaning the amount or number of a material or abstract thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement:
Meaning a small piece, part, or quantity of something:
Meaning a portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole:
Meaning a rate, number, or amount in each hundred:
Meaning any of the more or less distinct parts into which something is or may be divided or from which it is made up:
Meaning each of the parts into which something is or may be divided:
Meaning a part or portion of a larger amount which is divided among a number of people, or to which a number of people contribute:
Meaning a fixed share of something that a person or group is entitled to receive or is bound to contribute:
Meaning the action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated:
Meaning a numerical quantity that is not a whole number (e.g. 1/2, 0.5):
Meaning a plan or course of action taken to achieve a particular purpose:
Translation of proportion
- Spanish: proporción, proporcionar
- French: proportion, proportionner
- Italian: proporzione, proporzionare
- Portuguese: proporcionar
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