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What does proportional mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word proportional? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (mathematics) 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. Symbol: ∝.
  2. In proportion (to), proportionate. More common in US than UK.
  3. Of a typeface, having characters with natural (non-uniform) width (in contrast to monospace typefaces).
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A culture's excitement about the web is directly proportional to that culture's alienation from its everyday experience.
The magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic material is inversely proportional to absolute temperature.
Instead of that he was a victim of the strange quirks that the proportional representation system continues to throw up.
The risk of sensitization to acarids is proportional to their density in the patient's home environment.
Horses differ greatly in their oral cavity, and that difference is not proportional to height at the withers.
This offset depends on the angle of incidence, the index of refraction, and is directly proportional to the thickness of the slab.

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