Proportional

Adjective

 * 1) At a constant ratio (to). Two magnitudes (numbers) are said to be proportional if the second varies in a direct relation arithmetically to the first.
 * Quotation
 * The stopping distance is proportional to the square of the speed of the vehicle. &mdash; "How Far Will It Skid" at physicsclassroom.com.
 * 1) In proportion (to), proportionate. More common in US than UK.
 * Quotation
 * ...how much of the Bush administration's immediate post-9/11 emphasis on Iraq was appropriate and proportional to the overall picture of terrorism &mdash; Foreign_policy_of_the_George_W._Bush_administration retrieved 24 Jan 2005.

Thesaurus
3-D, affinitive, analogical, analogous, appertaining, associative, balanced, commensurable, commensurate, comparable, comparative, compatible, congenial, connective, consistent, contingent, correlated, correlative, corresponding, cubic, dependent, dimensional, distributional, distributive, en rapport, equal, even stephen, fifty-fifty, flat, fourth-dimensional, half, half-and-half, halvers, harmonious, in accordance with, linking, particular, per capita, per head, pertaining, pertinent, pro rata, proportionable, proportionate, proportioned, prorated, reciprocal, referable, referring, related, relating, relational, relative, respective, several, space, space-time, spatial, spatiotemporal, spherical, stereoscopic, superficial, surface, symmetrical, sympathetic, three-dimensional, two-dimensional, volumetric

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: verrannollinen
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 * Italian:
 * Spanish: proporcional


 * Finnish: suhteutettu
 * Hungarian:


 * Spanish: proporcional

Related terms

 * directly proportional
 * inversely proportional