Definition of proportionality in English:
proportionality
nounPlural proportionalities prəpɔːʃ(ə)ˈnalɪtiprəˌpɔrʃəˈnælədi
mass noun1The quality of corresponding in size or amount to something else.
the requirement of proportionality of punishment to offence
they try to ensure some proportionality between input and output
Example sentencesExamples
- You said to the committee that the speaking slots were allocated in terms of proportionality.
- She had been persuaded on grounds of proportionality that she should not adjourn the hearing.
- If sales growth is lower than inventory growth, inventories are liquidated to once again restore proportionality.
- There must be a reasonable relationship of proportionality between the means employed and the aim sought to be achieved.
- Adding enough women's teams to meet proportionality, the committee calculated, would cost $3 million.
- Wider representation or proportionality is delivered through the Senate.
- The striking of a fair balance lies at the heart of proportionality.
- Debt would be written off or suspended below a particular benchmark and proportionality would be used above the benchmark.
- Proportionality must be maintained and the realistically-achievable goals must outweigh the reasonably foreseeable harm.
- Proportionality should be a guideline in war.
- 1.1Mathematics The fact of a variable quantity having a constant ratio to another quantity.
the constant of proportionality between the two curves
count noun qualitative proportionalities
Example sentencesExamples
- The proportionalities can be defined as functions to obtain quantitative measurement systems.
- The page states Newton's second law of motion as mass and acceleration having a relationship of inverse proportionality.
- Putting those proportionalities together algebraically allows you deduce a relationship between speed and the number of rowers.
- The constant of proportionality was taken to be a universal constant of nature.
- Nowadays the constant of proportionality is known as the Hubble constant.
Definition of proportionality in US English:
proportionality
nounprəˌpôrSHəˈnalədēprəˌpɔrʃəˈnælədi
1The quality of corresponding in size or amount to something else.
the requirement of proportionality of punishment to offense
they try to ensure some proportionality between input and output
Example sentencesExamples
- Wider representation or proportionality is delivered through the Senate.
- The striking of a fair balance lies at the heart of proportionality.
- Proportionality must be maintained and the realistically-achievable goals must outweigh the reasonably foreseeable harm.
- Adding enough women's teams to meet proportionality, the committee calculated, would cost $3 million.
- She had been persuaded on grounds of proportionality that she should not adjourn the hearing.
- If sales growth is lower than inventory growth, inventories are liquidated to once again restore proportionality.
- Debt would be written off or suspended below a particular benchmark and proportionality would be used above the benchmark.
- Proportionality should be a guideline in war.
- You said to the committee that the speaking slots were allocated in terms of proportionality.
- There must be a reasonable relationship of proportionality between the means employed and the aim sought to be achieved.
- 1.1Mathematics The fact of a variable quantity having a constant ratio to another quantity.
the constant of proportionality between the two curves
count noun qualitative proportionalities
Example sentencesExamples
- Putting those proportionalities together algebraically allows you deduce a relationship between speed and the number of rowers.
- The proportionalities can be defined as functions to obtain quantitative measurement systems.
- The constant of proportionality was taken to be a universal constant of nature.
- The page states Newton's second law of motion as mass and acceleration having a relationship of inverse proportionality.
- Nowadays the constant of proportionality is known as the Hubble constant.