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Meaning proportion meaning

What does proportion mean?
Definitions in simple English

proportion Noun

— The proportion is the relationship in size between one part and another. Health care spending is taking up a much larger proportion of the government budget. The proportion of water to sugar should be two to one.

proportion

— noun the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole — noun magnitude or extent a building of vast proportions — noun (= symmetry) balance among the parts of something — noun the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree an inordinate proportion of the book is given over to quotations a dry martini has a large proportion of gin — verb adjust in size relative to other things — verb give pleasant proportions to harmonize a building with those surrounding it — noun (= balance) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance — John Ruskin

Synonyms proportion synonyms

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proportion English » English

ratio rate percentage dimension symmetry balance size measure magnitude proportionality part slenderness quotient quota quantity gauge extent distribution width whole vastness uniformity total terms sum stature standard specific spaciousness some slice scale respect relative importance relationship relation regard quantum prorate proportionate width orderliness measurement largeness harmony gradation full fraction rate format form footing

Topics proportion topics

What do people use proportion to talk about?
States

Quantity
States Quantity Number

Fraction
Language and thought Communication Say True

Exaggerate
Grammar Connected with, related Dependency relations

Relations involving correspondences

Conjugation proportion conjugation

How do you conjugate proportion?

proportion · verb

Examples proportion examples

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Simple sentences

This beer contains a high proportion of alcohol.
The punishment should be in proportion to the crime.
The proportion of the world's population speaking English as a first language is declining, and will continue to do so.
A miniscule proportion of the population understand what neutrons and protons are.
The proportion of single-person households has increased steadily in the past few years.
With every increase of scientific knowledge, man's power for evil is increased in the same proportion as his power for good.
Here the wages are paid in proportion to the amount of work done.
The proportion of sunny days to rainy days last month was 4 to 1.

Movie subtitles

The progress of the world will not fail due to learned ignoramuses lacking in fantasy whose brains work in inverse proportion to their calcification -!
Americans got no sense of proportion.
It is customary for His Majesty's soldiers, if I may call you that without maligning my sense of proportion, to observe the rules of civilized warfare.
Give a boy a sense of humor and proportion, and he'll stand up to anything.
Therefore let our proportion for these wars be soon collected, and all things thought upon that may with reasonable swiftness add more feathers to our wings, for, God before, we'll check this Dauphin at his father's door.
Certainly a typical old man's weakness. How out of proportion are the events of our lives. to the words with which we describe them.
Just because you had a few dates with her don't lose your sense of proportion.
The usual proportion.
It's my sense of proportion has failed me these days.
Oh, darling why do you lose your sense of proportion whenever the subject comes up?
You, however, blew things out of proportion!
Would thou hadst less deserved, that the proportion both of thanks and payment might have been mine!
And they litter a very high proportion of boys.
You'll notice that, like most men his head size is larger in proportion to the rest of his body.
Americans have no sense of proportion. Come in.
Well, that is a little out of proportion.
No, no, no the skull of a normal child of this size, five or six-years old, would be much larger in proportion to the circumference of the chest.
Same plaster, same proportion, same military subject and this piece comes from the house of the second murder while these pieces came from the house of the first.
I've allowed my affections to get involved with the lower classes more than once, but I had some sense of proportion.
But before you hear it all distorted and blown out of proportion, before those Hollywood columnists get their hands on it, maybe you'd like to hear the facts. The whole truth.
Everything an officer does is held under a glass magnified out of all proportion, criticised.
No, you must show some sense of proportion.
Get a hold of yourself! Don't blow it out of proportion.
Your regrettable affair. with a notorious young lady. who just met with an untimely end. would be quite inexplicable. had you not incurred, on behalf of that young lady. expenses out of all proportion to your avowed income.
Bid him therefore consider of his ransom; which must proportion the losses we have borne, the subjects we have lost, the disgrace we have digested.
It accounts for 34 percent of our gross intake and a higher proportion of our profits.
You'll notice that, like most men his head size is larger in proportion to the rest of his body. He also has a little more jaw.
But before you hear it all distorted and blown out of proportion, before those Hollywood columnists get their hands on it, maybe you; d like to hear the facts, the whole truth.
You're never told, the embroidery of your speech is completely out of proportion to anything you have to say.
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion. cheated of feature by dissembling nature. deformed, unfinished. sent before my time into this breathing world scarce half made up. and that so lamely and unfashionable. that dogs bark at me as I halt by them.
I've never met anyone before. who aroused and revolted me in the same proportion.
It started like nothing, and now it's blown out of proportion.
Yes, and it will break away. Acting as a safety valve of immense proportion.
Of course, it's just a matter of proportion.
The proportion of land to water is exactly as on your Earth.
People always ask me about the sheds. They've got it out of proportion.

News and current affairs

If you are a high-net-worth investor, a sovereign wealth fund, or a central bank, it makes perfect sense to hold a modest proportion of your portfolio in gold as a hedge against extreme events.
Recently, the IMF proposed a new global tax on financial institutions loosely in proportion to their size, as well as a tax on banks' profits and bonuses.
The US is often said to be more charitable than other countries; but, in terms of the proportion of the population donating money, Myanmar, Malta, Ireland, the UK, Canada, the Netherlands, and Iceland all do better.
And the proportion of youth is very high, with a bulging population of young men of military age (15-24 years).
And, in a world in which many citizens spend an increasing proportion of their time in virtual space, de facto condominialism is already happening.
Since 1983, the proportion of funding for mathematical and computational research that comes from the Biological Division of the US National Science Foundation has increased about 50-fold.
Now Taiwan has the highest proportion of engineers to total population in the world.
While China, India, and Brazil still have very large rural populations, they have made great strides in reducing poverty, with several hundred million people (the largest proportion in China), escaping it in the last few decades.
Because the world's population is rising, halving the proportion of people suffering from hunger (and extreme poverty) means that the number will not be halved.
Also significant, we are told, is the agreement to make decisions by simple majority, with countries' votes to be roughly in proportion to their contributions.
And this proportion is sure to rise.
For example, they call for reducing by 2015 the proportion of the world's population that was chronically under-nourished in 1990, and for cutting the child mortality rate by three quarters.
In fact, a large proportion of Russian imports from the EU are precisely of these generic consumer goods, which are not affected by sanctions.
Only afterwards did a sense of proportion take hold, ironically by the Egyptian and Syrian leaders before anyone else.
Since that risk is then passed on to taxpayers, imposing taxes on financial firms in proportion to their borrowing is a simple way to ensure fairness.
American presidents are elected by an Electoral College in which each state votes in proportion to the number of members it has in Congress.
The Chinese authorities have also introduced policies to reduce the proportion of coal in the country's overall energy mix.
A typical bank exam would include scrutiny of every single business loan and a large proportion of consumer loans.
In the more unsuccessful countries - Italy, Austria, Germany, France, Portugal, and the Netherlands - the proportion of immigrants with a tertiary education is below a quarter.
But the process of separating the petroleum-based recyclable plastics from other kinds of plastics and solid waste is difficult, costly, and labor-intensive, so only a small proportion is recycled.
Increasing the proportion of re-used plastics is a crucial step toward more sustainable plastics consumption.
By contrast, the corresponding MDG was to halve the proportion of the world's people who are suffering from hunger (as well as of those living in extreme poverty).
At the same time, emerging-market central banks need to accumulate gold reserves, which they still hold in far lower proportion than do rich-country central banks.
But this may have been offset by a decline in the proportion of earnings coming from the US.
In Labour's first nine years of governing, public expenditure as a proportion of GDP was lower than in the comparable Conservative period.
PRINCETON - In 2000, the world's leaders met in New York and issued a ringing Millennium Declaration, promising to halve the proportion of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.

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