noun🔗ShareA proportion."The effort put into studying should be proportional to the difficulty of the exam. "mathnumberChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareAt 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: ∝."The amount of time spent studying is proportional to the grade received in the exam. "mathstatisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareIn proportion (to), proportionate."The amount of homework assigned is proportional to the difficulty of the subject. "mathnumberamountChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareOf a typeface, having characters with natural (non-uniform) width (in contrast to monospace typefaces)."The novel's cover used a proportional typeface, so the words took up different amounts of space on the page. "typetechnologycomputingwritinglanguagecharacterChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
