proportions

Speech parts

1. proportions - Noun

2. proportions - Verb

Meaning

proportions

plural of proportion

(informal) A person's figure.

(flags) The measurements of a flag, described using a ratio.

proportions

third-person singular simple present indicative of proportion

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

mass sise size amount length bigness shape extent ratio measurement magnitude bulk dimension scope amplitude
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Phrases with the word

of ample proportions divine proportions of enormous proportions doctrine of definite proportions lowest proportions unequal proportions

Examples

Accordingly, as energy is removed from molecules, both their kinetic temperature (the temperature derived from the kinetic energy of translational motion) and their internal temperature simultaneously diminish in equal proportions. Source: Internet

According to the USHMM, by the winter of 1941, "starvation and disease resulted in mass death of unimaginable proportions". Source: Internet

Addiction, opioid deaths and heroin abuse are continuing to fuel a problem that has reached epidemic proportions, he wrote. Source: Internet

A combination of red, green and blue light in varying proportions makes all the colors on your computer screen and television screen. Source: Internet

After the realistic depiction of the human form and the mastery of perspective achieved in high Renaissance Classicism, some artists started to deliberately distort proportions in disjointed, irrational space for emotional and artistic effect. Source: Internet

Among the 10 authorities with the lowest proportions achieving the measure, four were in the North West, two were in the West Midlands, and there was one each in the East of England, Yorkshire and the Humber, the South East and the North East. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

proportionless proportionlessness proportionment proposable proposal proposal of marriage