directly proportional
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Carbon footprint is directly proportional to gallons of gasoline burned, so the same ratio applies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that galaxies in the universe were moving away from us at a rate directly proportional to the distance the galaxy was from Earth.
From Salon • Dec. 9, 2024
Nonlinearity in this context means that there is a significant shift, a jump in magnitude, in the light's behavior that is not directly proportional to its frequency, arising from its interaction with the material.
From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2023
Over the years these cars have gotten bigger and so has their cost to the climate, as carbon dioxide emissions “are almost directly proportional to fuel use” for gas-powered cars.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2023
More surprising still was the finding that Hubble published in 1929: even the size of a galaxy’s red shift is not random, but is directly proportional to the galaxy’s distance from us.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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