Definition of Proportionally

1. Adverb. To a proportionate degree. "Your salary will rise proportionately to your workload"

Exact synonyms: Proportionately
Partainyms: Proportional, Proportionate
Antonyms: Disproportionately

Definition of Proportionally

1. adv. In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively; as, all parts of the building are proportionally large.

Definition of Proportionally

1. Adverb. In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively. ¹

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Definition of Proportionally

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Proportionally

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proportion
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Literary usage of Proportionally

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"with an uniform motion, while the point p describes a line increasing or decreasing proportionally, the line AP, described by P, with this uniform motion, ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1883)
"Gra., Gravel, coarse in lower part ; R, rock, quarried. NOTE.—This gravel-bed may be viewed as sub-torrential. into alluvium proportionally extended ..."

3. The Lancet (1842)
"... of the viscera in fever is, I think, becoming again more marked, and the low character and tendency are proportionally receding out of view. ..."

4. Bulletin by University of the State of New York (1902)
"planned to cover these several large topics, with the further recommendation that the time allowance be proportionally increased in the order named. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1865)
"... and having much the same shape, excepting that it is proportionally wider ; inferior lateral lobe consisting merely of a broad rounded sinuosity. ..."

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