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To adjust in a suitable proportion as one thing or one part to another as to proportion the size of a building to its height to proportion our expenditures to our income...
Proportional
Having a due proportion or comparative relation being in suitable proportion or degree as the parts of an edifice are proportional...
Proportionally
In proportion in due degree adapted relatively as all parts of the building are proportionally large...
Proportional representation
Proportional representation , is a system of voting deliberately designed to ensure that as far as practicable the different shades of opinion in a country shall receive a fair representation in the elected assembly i.e. a representation proportionate to their relative strength, UNESCO Report, p. 551.Means a method of representation designed to secure the election of candidates in proportion to the numerical strength of each section of political opinion thus accurately reflecting the political feeling of the country in Parliament, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundy, p. 602....
ill proportioned
out of proportion in shape...
Proportional equality
Proportional equality, excepts the States to take affirmative action in favour of disadvantaged sections of the society within the framework of liberal democracy, M. Nagraj v. Union of India, AIR 2007 SC 71....
To be distributed in joint equal proportion
To be distributed in joint equal proportion, means when such an expression appears in a Will with reference to legatees, it creates only tenancy-in-common between them and the word 'joint' is not to be considered as giving a joint interest, but the same as if the testator had said 'to my children altogether of it', Ettrike v. Ettrike, 27 ER 426....
Quota
Quota, the proportion of a contribution. See, e.g., (English) Militia Act, 1882, s. 37; (English) Land Tax Act, 1797, s. 2.Under the (English) Cinematograph Films Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 29), the proportion in length of British films which renters and exhibitors respectively are obliged to include in any one year up to the end of March, 1938, for renting or exhibiting films in that year. In 1937 and 1938 the proportion in either case is 20 per cent. in coal mines, district schemes under Coal Mines Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 34), as amended, e.g., by S. R. & O., 1934, Nos. 677 and 766; and 1935, Nos. 696 and 697; the proportion of the standard tonnage which each of the coal mines in the district is to be allowed to produce under the scheme as provided by s. 3, ibid.; and see the (English) Wheat Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5,c. 24), s. 3, as to quota payments.Quota attaches to the owner of a business at the point of time the quota is granted. It is the business at the relevant time ...
Bronze
An alloy of copper and tin to which small proportions of other metals especially zinc are sometimes added It is hard and sonorous and is used for statues bells cannon etc the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle as in bell metal and speculum metal...
Proportionable
Capable of being proportioned or made proportional also proportional proportionate...
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