Proportionate
[prə'pɔːʃ(ə)nət] or [prə'pɔrʃənət]
Definition
(adj.) agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree .
(adj.) being in due proportion; 'proportionate representation of a minority group' .
Edited by Andrea--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.
(v.) To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Proportional.
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Examples
- Anyone who has had the smallest experience of municipal politics knows that the corruption of the police is directly proportionate to the severity of the taboos it is asked to enforce. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If you err wilfully, I shall devise a proportionate punishment. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The good news spread quickly through the house, and with proportionate speed through the neighbourhood. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The elevation of the table is proportionate to the quantity of water injected, and the power proportionate to the receptive areas of the pump and the cylinder. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The world seemed hardly large enough to yield him an amount of travel proportionate to his equipment. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- When full grown the Big Trees are proportionate and symmetrical in girth and height and the beauty of the tree is enhanced by flutings that traverse the bark from the base to the apex. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Its quantity increases so that its proportionate value is very different. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Some of these latter were occupying positions from which they could not render service proportionate to their numerical strength. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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