The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proportionally \Pro*por"tion*al*ly\, adv.
In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively; as, all
parts of the building are proportionally large.
--Sir I.
Newton.
Wiktionary
adv. In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively.
WordNet
adv. to a proportionate degree; "your salary will rise proportionately to your workload" [syn: proportionately] [ant: disproportionately]
Usage examples of "proportionally".
Gaps in available knowledge about what happened to the victim are, proportionally, gaps in the final profiling product.
The account also did not raise other issues such as whether Mexicans committed proportionally more violent crimes against Anglos than Anglos against Mexicans.
He whose forgiven sins return to him on account of subsequent ingratitude, incurs the debt for all, in so far as the measure of his previous sins is contained proportionally in his subsequent ingratitude, but not absolutely, as stated above.
Because the direction of the seventh-century Moslem armies was east to west, across the top of Egypt toward Libya and the Maghreb, the Copts fled southward, into Upper Egypt, which is why the Coptic presence in places like Assiut is proportionally higher than in Cairo, Alexandria, and the intervening delta—20 percent of the population in Upper Egypt as opposed to 10 percent in Lower Egypt is Coptic.
Losses in lighter units had been even worse proportionally, but the yards were turning out replacement cruisers and destroyers with production-line efficiency.
As he gradually advanced in the knowledge of truth, he proportionally declined in the practice of virtue.
Eyes proportionally larger than those of a domestic cat and outlined in black looked at Claude in an unmistakably friendly fashion.
De Candolle has wall remarked in his great and admirable work, that floras gain by naturalisation, proportionally with the number of the native genera and species, far more in new genera than in new species.
Since 1929, when Edwin Hubble formulated the law that redshift increases proportionally with distance, redshift has been the key to interpreting the size of the universe as well as being the prime evidence indicating it to be expanding from an initially compact object.
The politics and morality of illegal immigration meant nothing to the Ghost but he wondered if Coe knew that there were proportionally fewer Chinese-Americans on welfare than any other nationality, including native-born whites.
The frog would then drift slowly to the floor, since he would be proportionally less affected by the law of acceleration.
The principle which makes all operations on a large scale proportionally cheaper than on a small scale holds as to education also.