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What is the adjective for proportioning?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs proportion and proportionate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

proportional
  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).
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Swords and knives, especially, were made to be directly proportional to the size of the user.”
      “A machine was used for slicing, weighing and mixing proportional amounts of fruit with preservatives.”
      “In this particular system, the absolute temperature of an ideal gas is directly proportional to the average kinetic energy of the molecules.”
proportionate
proportionable
  1. Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional.
  2. Examples:
    1. “A worm of proportionable enormity had bored a hole in the shell.”
      “The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour.”
      “Herewith the clock is put in service. Mind that the clock is suspended on the wall straightly and its ticking proportionable.”
proportionless
proportioned
proportioning
proportionated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of proportionate
proportionating
  1. present participle of proportionate
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