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proportionally

American  
[pruh-pawr-shuh-nuhl-ee] / prəˈpɔr ʃə nəl i /

adverb

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


Example Sentences

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In rural regions, stoves play a proportionally larger role in overall nitrogen dioxide exposure.

From Science Daily

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

From MarketWatch

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.

From Science Daily

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

From BBC

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.

From The Wall Street Journal