Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 14 compound words that contain proportional. The most common are listed below. Open proportional in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- proportional representationA voting principle aimed at securing a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates (usually political parties) obtain in elections, and the percentage of seats they receive in the elected body.
- directly proportionalProportional to a constant multiple of an independent variable.
- inversely proportionalProportional to the reciprocal of the independent variable.
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- mixed-member proportionalA voting system used in Germany and New Zealand in which voters get two votes, one for a local representative MP and one for a political party, and in which the number of seats that a party gets in parliament is based on the percentage of …
- mean proportionalThe geometric mean.
- proportional navigationA form of navigation used by homing missiles, based on the fact that two vehicles are on a collision course when their direct line of sight does not change direction as the range closes.
- proportional analogyanalogy between four things, in which A is to B as C is to D, or A : B = C : D.
- proportional analogiesplural of proportional analogy: analogy between four things, in which A is to B as C is to D, or A : B = C : D.
- means proportionalplural of mean proportional: The geometric mean.
Compound words 14
- proportionalitythe property of being proportional
- biproportionalProviding two-way proportionality.
- equiproportionalequally proportional (to two or more other things)
- multiproportionalCharacterised by multiple proportions
- nonproportionalNot proportional
- overproportionalRelating to overproportion
- proportionalismA theory in ethics, lying between consequentialism and deontology, holding that it is never right to go against a principle unless there is a proportionate reason to justify doing so.
- proportionalistA proponent of proportionalism.
- proportionalizeTo form a proportionality
- subproportionalLess than proportional