proportional

Speech parts

1. proportional - Noun

2. proportional - Adjective

3. proportional - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional.

Relating to, or securing, proportion.

Constituting a proportion; having the same, or a constant, ratio; as, proportional quantities; momentum is proportional to quantity of matter.

Any number or quantity in a proportion; as, a mean proportional.

The combining weight or equivalent of an element.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

relative similar even related regular uniform cubic volumetric equal equivalent corresponding linear parallel appropriate consistent
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Antonyms

irregular uneven twisted unequal asymmetrical disproportionate
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Hypernyms

quantity

Phrases with the word

perfectly proportional proportional density proportional fault proportional article ideally proportional proportional arms

Examples

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability. Jerry Pournelle

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. Hermann Ebbinghaus

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. Douglas Engelbart

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available. Gregory Benford

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other. Leon Trotsky

The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior. Alfie Kohn

Close letter words and terms

proportionable proportionableness proportionably proportional analogy proportional arms proportional article