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Prorate :: Prorate (v. t.) To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata.

Club :: Club (v. t.) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense..

Progression :: Progression (n.) Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic..

Quota :: Quota (n.) A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.

Thermometer :: Thermometer (n.) An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature in bodies are accompained by proportional changes in their volumes or dimensions..

Disproportionality :: Disproportionality (n.) The state of being disproportional.

Tetra- :: Tetra- () A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting four proportional or combining parts of the substance or ingredient denoted by the term to which it is prefixed, as in tetra-chloride, tetroxide..

Proportional :: Proportional (a.) Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional..

Proportion :: Proportion (n.) The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional..

Proportional :: Proportional (n.) Any number or quantity in a proportion; as, a mean proportional..

Disproportional :: Disproportional (a.) Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body; the studies of youth should not be disproportional to their understanding..

Disproportionally :: Disproportionally (adv.) In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally..

Proportionate :: Proportionate (v.) To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes..

Sinusoid :: Sinusoid (n.) The curve whose ordinates are proportional to the sines of the abscissas, the equation of the curve being y = a sin x. It is also called the curve of sines..

Proportionally :: Proportionally (adv.) In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively; as, all parts of the building are proportionally large..

Parameter :: Parameter (n.) Specifically (Conic Sections), in the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate..

Proportionality :: Proportionality (n.) The state of being in proportion.

Commeasurable :: Commeasurable (a.) Having the same measure; commensurate; proportional.

Apportion :: Apportion (v. t.) To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments..

Hodograph :: Hodograph (n.) A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces..

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