proportion is on the Academic Word List.

Pronunciation change

Noun change

Singular
proportion

Plural
proportions

  1. The proportion is the relationship in size between one part and another.
    Health care spending is taking up a much larger proportion of the government budget.
    The proportion of water to sugar should be two to one.

Verb change

Plain form
proportion

Third-person singular
proportions

Past tense
proportioned

Past participle
proportioned

Present participle
proportioning

  1. If you proportion something, you divide it into equal portions.

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