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proportionality

Variant of proportional

adjective

  1. of or determined by proportion; relative
  2. having, or being in, proportion: pay proportional to work done
  3. Math. having the same or a constant ratio

Origin: ME proporcional < L proportionalis

noun

a quantity in a mathematical proportion

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