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One of the quantities in a mathematical proportion
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proportional
Word definitions for proportional in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proportional \Pro*por"tion*al\, a. [L. proportionalis: cf. F. proportionnel.] Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional. --Milton. Relating to, or securing, proportion. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c. (implied in proportionally ), from Late Latin proportionalis "pertaining to proportions," from proportio (see proportion ). Related: Proportionally .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 At a constant ratio (to). Two magnitudes (numbers) are said to be proportional if the second varies in a direct relation arithmetic to the first. 2 In proportion (to), proportionate. More common in US than UK.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'; "punishment oughtt to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings relative to production" [syn: relative ] increasing as the amount taxed increases [syn: ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES proportional representation COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB directly ▪ Again, the increase is not directly proportional to the blocking factor. ▪ Hence a current flows; the current is directly proportional to ...
Usage examples of proportional.
The assay involves using a radioactive drug which binds quantitatively to the acetylcholine receptor, the amount of radioactivity bound being proportional to the amount of receptor present.
In using a range of metals and polymers, the coefficient of inharmonicity is proportional to the modulus of elasticity divided by the square of the density.
Nor has the microscope discovered in the demented any exudation or addition to the stroma of the brain, or any change in size, shape, or proportional number of its cells.
Richard slowly turned each over, idly looking for anything that made sense to him as Zedd droned on about overlapping transpositional forks and triple duplexes bound to conjugated roots compromised by precession and sequential, proportional, binary inversions shrouding flawed bifurcations that the formulas revealed which could only be detected through Subtractive levorotatory.
This sine function is the same one that appeared earlier in the direct-current Josephson effect, where the supercurrent is proportional to the sine of the phase across the junction.
The oxidations at the cells are, therefore, under such control that the quantity of kinetic energy supplied to the body as a whole, and to the different organs, is proportional to the work that is done.
And by a convenient accident I find that the other day he moved to reject the Proportional Representation Amendment made by the House of Lords to the Representation of the People Bill, so that I am able to look up the debate in Hansard and study my opinions as he represented them and this question at one and the same time.
Looking at the question, now, in its generality, and referring to the first movements of the atoms towards mass-constitution, we find that heterogeneousness, brought about directly through condensation, is proportional with it forever.
This limit, called the Rayleigh criterion, is proportional to the wavelength of the light being focused divided by the lens aperture.
Whether a process yields proportional results, or not, will be seen from a series of standardisings.
If the results are proportional, these standards will vary more or less, according to the delicacy of the process, but there will be no apparent order in the variation.
All processes yield fairly proportional results if the quantities vary within narrow limits.
The problem was its height, which had to be proportional to the height of the walls of Takamatsu Castle.
The weights of the two buttons are proportional to the cubes of their diameters.
All strange-space astrogational computations are approximate, and the errors, though expressed in nano- or picodegrees, increase proportional to target distance.