proportionality

Examples

• All

• Understanding proportionality helps in analyzing how changes in one quantity affect another in a constant ratio.

• The same constant of proportionality applies for heat radiation, for light, and even for X-rays.

  Academic text (2006)

• You can have sets of block chains and then you can have the proportionality between the risk taking taken and the rewards given.

• Figure 6 provides an example of a 200 percent proportionality distortion.

  Academic text (2002)

• Now the amounts are given by the proportionality relation here with the epsilon.

• Here, the proportionality constant is directly related to the time constant for thermal fluctuations.

  Academic text (1999)

• The proper objective in just sentencing is neither uniformity nor equality, but rather proportionality.

  Academic text (2003)

• Twelve decision cases involved proportionality distortions that exaggerated the magnitude of the company's growth rate.

  Academic text (2002)

• All 12 cases involved proportionality distortions that exaggerated the magnitude of a company's growth rate by 200 percent.

  Academic text (2002)

• The proportions of subjects awarding shares according to proportionality were 59, 39, and 74 percent for scenarios 1, 2, and 3, respectively.

  Academic text (1994)

Compounds

C

constant of proportionality

• Specialized

6.0

A number that shows how much one value changes when another changes at the same rate

F

factor of proportionality

• Specialized

4.5

A number you multiply one amount by to get another amount that changes the same way

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology