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proportionally

[pruh-pawr-shuh-nuhl-ee]

adverb

  1. in a way or to an extent that maintains proportion relative to something else.



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If you do decide to split the rent proportionally to how much each of you make, does this apply to the utility bills?

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Remarkably, the cell's internal structures remain intact and stretch proportionally, allowing researchers to enlarge the specimen up to 16 times without using high-powered lenses.

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Baltimore County Police Department said their officers "responded appropriately and proportionally based on the information provided at the time".

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This innovation goes back a ways, to Enzo Ferrari himself, who decreed that the power in his cars should always rise, linearly and proportionally, with throttle demand, from low revs to redline.

An Airbus executive declined to comment on the compensation the European planemaker might receive for its proportionally lower share in the new company.

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