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proportion

From Wiktionary
proportion is on the Academic Word List.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Singular
proportion

Plural
proportions
  1. The proportion is the relationship in size between one part and another.
    Health care spending is taking up a much larger proportion of the government budget.
    The proportion of water to sugar should be two to one.

Verb

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Plain form
proportion

Third-person singular
proportions

Past tense
proportioned

Past participle
proportioned

Present participle
proportioning

  1. If you proportion something, you divide it into equal portions.
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