Definitions for proportion

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proportion pro·por·tion

Spelling: [pruh-pawr-shuh n, -pohr-]

IPA: /prəˈpɔr ʃən, -ˈpoʊr-/

Proportion is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in proportion (inooopprrt).

Definitions for proportion

noun

1. comparative relation between things or magnitudes as to size, quantity, number, etc.; ratio.
2. proper relation between things or parts:
3. relative size or extent.
4. proportions, dimensions or size:
5. a portion or part in its relation to the whole:
6. symmetry, harmony, or balance:
7. the significance of a thing or event that an objective view reveals:
8. Mathematics. a relation of four quantities such that the first divided by the second is equal to the third divided by the fourth; the equality of ratios. Compare rule of three.
9. Archaic. analogy; comparison.

verb (used with object)

1. to adjust in proper proportion or relation, as to size, quantity, etc.
2. to balance or harmonize the proportions of.

Origin of proportion

1350-1400; Middle English proporcio(u)n Latin prōportiōn- (stem of prōportiō) symmetry, analogy. See pro-¹, portion

Examples for proportion

At the same time, single women now rival evangelicals as a proportion of the electorate.

Like most such predators, their danger to humans is often blown out of proportion.

Perhaps some day I may get a reward out of all proportion to this small service.

Capitalist-led industrial growth shifted the proportion of the population living in cities.

For a man's heart is sensitive in proportion to its greatness.

So important is this proportion that it should be memorized.

First, the epidemiologic: The proportion of adults who choose not to be parents is growing and sits at 20 percent or so.

Pressure of wind increases in proportion to the square of the velocity.

This got blown out of proportion and made into headlines, and somehow I looked like I was picking on her.

And by exactly that proportion they might be a day's or a five days' journey distant!