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View definitions for proportional

proportional

adjective as in proportionate

adjective as in equivalent

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But the outage has raised the question of what that proportional response would look like, and whether it would be legal.

This is more important than it may seem because it only allows a two-week window where delegate contests have to be proportional.

Of course, like any investment, the risk is proportional to the reward.

Benkler, a defense expert witness, testified, however, that Manning's leaks were proportional to the Information Age he lives in.

Israel possesses a vibrant, freely elected parliament emerging from a hyper-democratic proportional representation system.

This evaporation of the sea water is proportional to the temperature and to the dryness of the air where it rests upon the ocean.

It may therefore be said that the need of money is proportional to the need for commercial transactions.

A tree, in sending out equal boughs on opposite sides, is symmetrical; in sending out smaller boughs toward the top, proportional.

A single queen bee, distinguishable by the great length of her body, and the proportional shortness of her wings.

For these reasons, they possess a value which ought to give them a proportional weight in an investigation like the present.

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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to proportional, such as: comparable, corresponding, comparative, equal, equivalent, and relative.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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