proportional
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
proportional/prəˈpɔːʃənl/
▶adjective
- 1 corresponding in size or amount to something else.
- 2 Mathematics (of a variable quantity) having a constant ratio to another quantity.
– derivatives
proportionality noun,
proportionally adverb.
proportionality noun,
proportionally adverb.
'proportional' also found in these Oxford entries:
additional member system
- apportionment
- block vote
- Boyle's law
- Charles's law
- Coulomb's law
- Graham's law
- Henry's law
- Hooke's law
- Joule's law
- law of mass action
- linear
- list system
- Ohm's law
- party list
- PR
- proportionable
- proportional representation
- proportionate
- pro rata
- quantum
- quota
- rate
- simple harmonic motion
- single transferable vote
- synchronous motor
