How to pronounce“proportional”in English
And one more thing out there is that if you're picking more than one person, there's an even more powerful thing you can do.
Proportional representation is the notion that if you're electing a city council or a state legislature,
if 20% of the people show up in some constituency and vote for whatever their favorite cause is, then 20% of the seats of the legislature
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Definitions of “proportional”
At a constant ratio (to). Two magnitudes (numbers) are said to be proportional if the second varies in a direct relation arithmetically to the first. Symbol: ∝.
“A vacuum-controlled straight air brake system is fitted, in which the driver's vacuum brake valve applies the train brake and makes a proportional application of the locomotive air brake.”
In proportion (to), proportionate.
“This ensures consistency across your website design so that you don't end up with elements that are not adequately proportional with each other.”
A proportion.
“It is almost superfluous to remark that the numbers attached to the elements of compounds are those of the proportionals in which they combine […]”
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