proportions

Meaning of proportions

plural noun
  1. a part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole.
    the proportion of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is rising
verb, 3rd person present
  1. 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 proportions

  • The singular form of proportions is: proportion.
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Hyphenation of proportions

pro-por-tions

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • proportions is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

proportions synonyms

Meaning an amount or section which, when combined with others, makes up the whole of something:

part

Meaning a part of a whole:

portion

Meaning a quantity of something, especially the total of a thing or things in number, size, value, or extent:

amount

Meaning the amount or number of a material or abstract thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement:

quantity

Meaning a small piece, part, or quantity of something:

bit

Meaning a portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole:

piece

Meaning a rate, number, or amount in each hundred:

percentage

Meaning any of the more or less distinct parts into which something is or may be divided or from which it is made up:

section

Meaning each of the parts into which something is or may be divided:

segment

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:

share

Meaning a fixed share of something that a person or group is entitled to receive or is bound to contribute:

quota

Meaning the action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated:

division

Meaning a numerical quantity that is not a whole number (e.g. 1/2, 0.5):

fraction

Meaning a plan or course of action taken to achieve a particular purpose:

measure

Words that rhyme with proportions

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