proportionally
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4.2
- adverb
- /prəˈpɔrʃənəli/
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proporcionalmente
- There is a drive to replace fixed charges with fees tied proportionally to car use.
- proportionally more
- proportionally less
- proportionally few
And not to say that they they aren't proportionally impactful, they are.
- And not to say that they they aren't proportionally impactful, they are.
- As your income goes up, you're going to start proportionally continuing to invest.
- But it can become just a way of proportionally dividing the spoils.
- We need to grow our economy so that the debt gets proportionally smaller.
- So with the tumor tissue is putting out proportionally far more oxygen free radicals in response to the oxygen that I'm giving it.
- Women lost proportionally fewer jobs than men during the Great Depression, as the type of work that they did at the time was more personal in nature.
- The longer you let your hair grow, the more that line that part proportionally to your hair will look narrow.
- So right now my channel is growing much faster than where it is proportionally.
- Mushrooms are the reproductive structures of a small group of, well, a large group, but a small, proportionally small group of fungi.
- And if societally we were able to put, you know, as much money proportionally based off of your question of these disability scores.
- And it's had minimal, minimal impact on rocket design, on proportionally on rocket design, anything, any technology whatsoever.
- When you look into proportionally how, how many people the, the, the population goes, it's very, very heavily a crime of black youth.
- And it really is helpful for you to proportionally allocate them the frivolous, the joyful, the purposeful, the meaningful, the important but dull.
Examples
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We need to grow our economy so that the debt gets proportionally smaller.
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The number of participants in the study rose proportionally to the increase in funding.
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Are more children born, proportionally, in the city than in the country?
Academic text (1996) -
The amount of knowledge decline was proportionally the same for all three schools.
Academic text (2004) -
The speed of computer interaction has increased proportionally with the power of the new generation of computers.
Academic text (1992) -
And then the size of the benefit you get rises proportionally with the size of your wage.
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During the same period, the U.S. trade deficit with China increased proportionally from $2.8 billion to $33.8 billion.
Academic text (1999) -
We drew a random sample that was stratified proportionally in each sector.
Academic text (1996) -
Although not statistically significant, it appears that there are proportionally fewer female Hispanic than White clients.
Academic text (2008) -
Finally, in both grades, there were proportionally fewer children receiving speech-language services with average and above-average reading competence.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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4.1
In a way that makes one thing match another in size or amount
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7.5
In a way that matches something in size or degree
In a way that matches the size or amount of something
How Proportionate
Surface Forms
Morphology
proportionally = proportional (transparent) = proportion + al + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the clear adjective 'proportional', which itself transparently derives from 'proportion' + '-al'.
Etymology
Proportionally comes from proportion, a word built from parts that mean 'part' or 'share', like the simpler word portion. So, to do something proportionally is to change or give it the right size or amount compared with something else.