Results for proportion

Definitions of proportion:

part of speech: verb transitive

To form symmetrically, or make the parts of suitable to each other; to cause to be in suitable relation.

part of speech: verb transitive

To adjust: to form symmetrically.

part of speech: noun

The relation in size, quantity, or degree of one to another; ratio or rate; a proper balance or relation of all the parts; equal or just share.

part of speech: noun

Relation or correspondence of parts between unequal things of the same kind; symmetry; in arith., a rule in which three terms are given to find a fourth; in geom., the identity, equality, or similitude of ratios; mutual fitness or correspondence of parts to each other, and to the whole; equal degree; equal or just share; form; size.

part of speech: verb

To adjust the comparative relation of one thing, or one part, to another; to form symmetrically; to divide into equal or just shares.

part of speech: noun

The relation of one thing to another in regard to magnitude: mutual fitness of parts: symmetrical arrangement: ( math.) the identity or equality of ratios: the " rule of three," in which three terms are given to find a fourth: equal or just share.

Usage examples for proportion:

• " Although her voice is very weak," says the author of the Lettres historiques, " she pleased the public at first, and continues to please it; because it finds in her a novel style, natural and the more agreeable, in that she has studied how to control it and to proportion it to her strength; and thus one might say that the weakness of her chest has contributed to this kind of perfection." "Queens of the French Stage", H. Noel Williams

• She never knew precisely what to make of it; at that moment it was impossible for her to guess how much of it was jest and what proportion was earnest. "The Awakening and Selected Short Stories", Kate Chopin

• I have done my duty by him, not indeed according to his claims, but in proportion to my faculty. "The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846", Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

• Others thought that the proportion of water was greater. "The United States Since The Civil War", Charles Ramsdell Lingley