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Proportional   /prəpˈɔrʃənəl/   Listen
adjective
Proportional  adj.  
1.
Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional.
2.
Relating to, or securing, proportion.
3.
(Math.) Constituting a proportion; having the same, or a constant, ratio; as, proportional quantities; momentum is proportional to quantity of matter.
Proportional logarithms, logistic logarithms. See under Logistic.
Proportional scale, a scale on which are marked parts proportional to the logarithms of the natural numbers; a logarithmic scale.
Proportional scales, Proportional compasses, Proportional dividers, etc. (Draughting), instruments used in making copies of drawings, or drawings of objects, on an enlarged or reduced scale.


noun
Proportional  n.  
1.
(Math.) Any number or quantity in a proportion; as, a mean proportional.
2.
(Chem.) The combining weight or equivalent of an element. (Obs.)





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"Proportional" Quotes from Famous Books



... ship probed the ever-shifting currents in the four-dimensional universe. The long ship found a low-density flaw, where space could hardly be said to exist at all. The long ship, described mathematically, was half as long as the continuum—the length being inversely proportional and related only to mass. Time was but a moth's wing ...
— General Max Shorter • Kris Ottman Neville
... Mobilier Co. had been formed to take the contract for building the Union Pacific Railroad. The stockholders of the two companies were identical. Each stockholder of the Credit Mobilier owned a number of shares of the Union Pacific Railroad proportional to his ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar
... different from what last night's journey had presaged, produced a proportional effect upon Mannering. Beneath his eye lay the modern house; an awkward mansion, indeed, in point of architecture, but well situated, and with a warm, pleasant exposure.—How happily, thought our hero, would ...
— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott
... sinking into the limbo of all other ancient superstitions. To him it is but a matter of time for the inevitable crumbling and disappearance of these superstitions, and the time involved is directly proportional to the ease and rapidity with which scientific knowledge is disseminated to men who have the mental capacity to understand the value of this knowledge and its utter destruction of all forms of supernaturalism. When man becomes fully cognizant of ...
— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks
... compass of a stringed instrument, it is necessary, among other things, to have the tension of all the strings reasonably uniform. In the treble this is accomplished by varying the string lengths. Since the length of a vibrating string is inversely proportional to its frequency, each string is made about half as long as the string an octave below, two thirds as long as the string a fifth below, etc. This principle cannot be carried all the way into the bass since ...
— Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries • John D. Shortridge


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