Proportional
31proportional — adjective a proportional increase in wages Syn: corresponding, proportionate, comparable, in proportion, pro rata, commensurate, equivalent, consistent, relative, analogous Ant: disproportionate …
32proportional — Proportion »Größenverhältnis; rechtes Maß; Verhältnisgleichung«: Das seit dem Ende des 15. Jh.s bezeugte Substantiv erscheint zuerst als mathematischer Fachausdruck (im Sinne von »Verhältnisgleichung«). Es ist aus lat. proportio »das… …
33proportional — proportionate / proportional [adj] balanced, corresponding commensurable, commensurate, comparable, comparative, compatible, consistent, contingent, correlative, correspondent, corresponding, dependent, equal, equitable, equivalent, even, in… …
34proportional — /prə pɔ:ʃ(ə)n(ə)l/ adjective directly related ● The increase in profit is proportional to the reduction in overheads …
35Proportional representation — (sometimes referred to as full representation, or PR), is a category of electoral formula aiming at a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates (grouped by a certain measure) obtain in elections and the percentage of… …
36Proportional hazards models — are a class of survival models in statistics. Survival models relate the time that passes before some event occurs to one or more covariates that may be associated with that quantity. In a proportional hazards model, the unique effect of a unit… …
37Proportional reasoning — Proportional ReasoningProportionality is a mathematical relation between two quantities. Proportional reasoning is one of the skills a child acquires when progressing from the stage of concrete operations to the stage of formal operations… …
38Proportional logarithms — Proportional Pro*por tion*al, a. [L. proportionalis: cf. F. proportionnel.] 1. Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2.… …
39Proportional scale — Proportional Pro*por tion*al, a. [L. proportionalis: cf. F. proportionnel.] 1. Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2.… …
40Proportional (fair division) — Proportional division or simple fair division is the original and simplest problem in fair division. Fair division problems are also called cake cutting problems. A proportional division of a cake between N people would ensure each of them got at …
