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Proportional   /prəpˈɔrʃənəl/   Listen
adjective
Proportional  adj.  
1.
Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional.
2.
Relating to, or securing, proportion.
3.
(Math.) Constituting a proportion; having the same, or a constant, ratio; as, proportional quantities; momentum is proportional to quantity of matter.
Proportional logarithms, logistic logarithms. See under Logistic.
Proportional scale, a scale on which are marked parts proportional to the logarithms of the natural numbers; a logarithmic scale.
Proportional scales, Proportional compasses, Proportional dividers, etc. (Draughting), instruments used in making copies of drawings, or drawings of objects, on an enlarged or reduced scale.


noun
Proportional  n.  
1.
(Math.) Any number or quantity in a proportion; as, a mean proportional.
2.
(Chem.) The combining weight or equivalent of an element. (Obs.)





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"Proportional" Quotes from Famous Books



... which forbids us to assume the action of more remote causes where more proximate ones are found sufficient to explain the effects. Consequently, the validity of the argument now under consideration is inversely proportional to the number of possibilities there are of the aspirations in question being due to the agency of physical causes; and forasmuch as our ignorance of psychological causation is well-nigh total, ...
— A Candid Examination of Theism • George John Romanes
... is man's brain. The average proportion of the weight of the brain to the weight of the body is greater in man than in most animals, being about 1 to 36. In some small birds, in the smaller monkeys, and in some rodents, the proportional weight of the brain to that of the body is ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell
... preserving inviolate the fundamental principle, that the people are not to be taxed but by representatives chosen immediately by themselves. I am captivated by the compromise of the opposite claims of the great and little States, of the latter to equal, and the former to proportional influence. I am much pleased, too, with the substitution of the method of voting by person, instead of that of voting by States; and I like the negative given to the Executive, conjointly with a third of either House; though I should have liked it better, had the judiciary ...
— The Writings of Thomas Jefferson - Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) • Thomas Jefferson
... appearance is deceptive, since error cannot remove the effects of error. Discomfort under error is preferable to comfort. In no instance is the effect of 101:30 animal magnetism, recently called hypnotism, other than the effect of illusion. Any seeming benefit derived from it is proportional to one's faith ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy
... means to be confounded with the referees in astronomical or pharmaceutical cases, or with ordinary omphalopsychites. Whatever be or not be the result of these investigations and calculations, it is consolatory to the student of proportional hemispheres to remark that, whichever way the sophist may turn, he must invariably rely on the softer impeachments of a hireling ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 • Various


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