Proportion
noun
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- (The comparative relation between things balance or symmetry, dimensions, an equality between, number size, or amount of a thing or group as compared with another thing or group; share; part) correct proportion សមាមាត្រ large proportion ភាគ (rock of huge) proportions ទំហំ out of proportion មិនសមគ្នា
Example: The proportion of the population still speaking the dialect is very small. - 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) សមាមាត្រ, ទំហំ
verb — past tense: proportioned ; past participle: proportioned ; present participle: proportioning ;
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- (TRANSITIVE) (To put (one thing) in a right relation another, In proportion (to) in proper or pleasing relation; in balance or harmony with) លៃអោយសម
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
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- The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body.
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- Harmonic relation between parts, or between different things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment; symmetry; as, to be out of proportion.
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- The portion one receives when a whole is distributed by a rule or principle; equal or proper share; lot.
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- A part considered comparatively; a share.
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- The equality or similarity of ratios, especially of geometrical ratios; or a relation among quantities such that the quotient of the first divided by the second is equal to that of the third divided by the fourth; -- called also geometrical proportion, in distinction from arithmetical proportion, or that in which the difference of the first and second is equal to the difference of the third and fourth.
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- The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional.
verb — past tense: proportioned ; past participle: proportioned ; present participle: proportioning ;
- 1.
- To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its height; to proportion our expenditures to our income.
- 2.
- To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body.
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- To divide into equal or just shares; to apportion.
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- balance, dimensions, distribution, equilibrium, extent, part, percentage, piece, portion, ratio, share, size, symmetry