proportion

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  1. noun A part considered in relation to the whole.
  2. noun A relationship between things or parts of things with respect to comparative magnitude, quantity, or degree: the proper proportion between oil and vinegar in the dressing.
  3. noun A relationship between quantities such that if one varies then another varies in a manner dependent on the first: "We do not always find visible happiness in proportion to visible virtue” (Samuel Johnson).
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  • They could have concentrated 220,000 men at Dresden against Buonaparte's 130,000, a proportion of numbers eminently favourable (at Leipsic, at least, the proportion was as 285 : 157). —  Clausewitz, ON WAR - Book VI-Chapter 24
  • This proportion was about three times that of women in the general population who got the disease. —  NaturalNews.com
  • Because the study tracked only women who had been hospitalized, there is no way to know whether this proportion is the same in women treated for mastitis on an outpatient basis, Dr. Wendel said. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • Toribio Motolina, another Spanish priest, wrote that in most provinces in Mexico "more than one half the population died; in others the proportion was a little less; they died in heaps, like bedbugs."
  • Complete clearance was defined as the proportion of patients at the Day 57 visit with no clinically visible AK lesions in the selected treatment area. —  Health News from Medical News Today
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  1. Middle English proporcion, from Old French proportion, from Latin prōportiō, prōportiōn-, from prō portiōne, according to (each) part : prō, according to; see pro-1 + portiōne, ablative of portiō, part; see perə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English proporcion, proporcioun, from Old French proportion, proporcion, French proportion = Spanish proporcion = Portuguese proporção = Italian proporzione, from Latin proportio(n-), comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy, from pro, for, before, + portio(n-), share, part: see portion.
  2. from Middle English proporcionen, porporciounen, from Old French proportionner, proporcionner, French proportionner = Spanish Portuguese proporcionar = Italian proporzionare; from the noun.
 

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