proportion
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3.5
- noun
- /prəˈpɔrʃən/
- Specialized
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proporción
- The recipe indicates that the ingredients should be mixed in the right proportion to achieve the best flavor.
- a high proportion
- a large proportion
- proportion of variance
I don't care about constants of proportion etcetera, OK?
- I don't care about constants of proportion etcetera, OK?
- But they're not a large proportion as far as we can tell.
- And as you compress the box, the proportion of liquid and gas will change.
- We're just going to use this proportion to help us solve for the sign of B.
- Hungary spent some ungodly proportion of their national GDP.
- And what I don't get is why the politicians and a proportion of society can't see that.
- It's an amazing how few people are actually paying such a big proportion of the taxes.
- It doesn't need to be a precise proportion of salt.
- And a reasonable proportion were rescued.
- This law states that a given compound always contains exactly the same proportion of elements by mass.
- So there is a legal answer that says a very small proportion of women have penises.
Examples
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However, this ratio reflected the normal proportion of patients who received such therapy in our center.
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The changing demographics are leading to increases in the proportion of older workers within organizations.
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And that weight does not go up in proportion, right?
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Will always be in exact proportion to our service.
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Thus, the sum of the proportion of woodland and the proportion of open land is always one.
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We believe that a large proportion of the counterfeit notes can possibly be passed in places such as this.
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Corn is used primarily as animal feed, with the proportion varying by animal species.
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Students are educated in classes reflecting the naturally occurring proportion of students with and without disabilities.
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In high-income countries, a growing proportion of heart disease and stroke occurs in the oldest people.
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The sizes of many organs and tissues change over time in proportion to their functional demands.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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1.0
One part in every hundred used to show a rate
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2.1
A part of a whole shown as a number out of 100
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2.1
A part of something that belongs to one person or group
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2.8
A relationship between two numbers showing how many times one is in the other
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A number that shows a part of a whole written as one number over another
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The number you get by dividing one number by another
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5.1
The number of times something happens compared with the total number of cases
How often something happens compared with something else
How much of something there is compared with something else
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
The part of people who have a disease and die from it, often shown as a percent
- Specialized
The percentage of infections that become known as cases
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A rule that a pure material always contains the same elements in the same amounts by weight, for example water
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Proportion comes from the Latin parts pro- and portio, where portio means 'part' or 'share' and is like the English word portion. So a proportion is the part or fraction of the whole — the share compared to everything else.