Proportional Definition

prə-pôrshə-nəl
adjective
Of or determined by proportion; relative.
Webster's New World
Having, or being in, proportion.
Pay proportional to work done.
Webster's New World
Properly related in size, degree, or other measurable characteristics; corresponding.
Punishment ought to be proportional to the crime.
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Having the same or a constant ratio.
Webster's New World

At a constant ratio (to). Two magnitudes (numbers) are said to be proportional if the second varies in a direct relation arithmetically to the first.

Quotation.
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noun
A quantity in a mathematical proportion.
Webster's New World

Proportional Sentence Examples

  • This loss is proportional to the length of the wire.

  • Now, we know that the number of electrochemical equivalents electrolysed is proportional to the whole amount of electricity which passed through the circuit, and the product of this by the electromotive force of the battery is the work done by the latter, so that in this case also Joule showed that the heat generated was proportional to the work done.

  • The violence or completeness of combustion was proportional to the amount of phlogiston present.

  • Under the first head would be included proportional taxes dependent upon the value of the property taxed; under the second, taxes whose amount does not depend upon that value.

  • Two categories of rent, fixed and proportional, are payable to the state by mineowners.

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PPRPRO

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