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Definition of Proportional
Proportional

Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional.

Relating to, or securing, proportion.

Constituting a proportion; having the same, or a constant, ratio; as, proportional quantities; momentum is proportional to quantity of matter.

Any number or quantity in a proportion; as, a mean proportional.

The combining weight or equivalent of an element.

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Proportional Quotations

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.
Craig Bruce

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
John Stuart Mill

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
Michael Korda

Proportional Translations

proportional in Dutch is proportioneel, evenredig
proportional in German is proportional
proportional in Portuguese is proporcional


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