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A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of a point moving in any path used in investigations respecting central forces...
Coulombs law
The law that the force exerted between two electric or magnetic charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely to the square of the distance between them...
Commeasurable
Having the same measure commensurate proportional...
quota
quota [Medieval Latin, from Latin quota pars how great a part] 1 : a proportional part or share assigned to each in a body 2 : a specific amount that serves as a minimum or maximum [a law against traffic ticket s] ...
contribution
contribution 1 : payment of a share of an amount for which one is liable: as a : shared payment of a judgment by joint tortfeasors esp. according to proportional fault compare apportion b : pro rata apportionment of loss among all the insurance policies covering the same person or property compare indemnity 2 : the money paid by one responsible for a share 3 : payment to a common fund (as by an employer or employee to an insurance plan or retirement fund) ...
donation
donation 1 : the making of an esp. charitable gift 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : a voluntary transfer of ownership of property from one person to another compare sale dis·guised donation : a transfer of property (as a sale) that does not have a sufficient reciprocal consideration (as a proportional price) so that it is considered a gratuitous donation and must meet the statutory requirements for a donation (as a notarial act) to be valid called also donation in disguise compare simulation donation in·ter vi·vos [-in-tər-vī-vōs, -in-ter-vē-vōs] : a donation that transfers property owned by the donor and that takes effect upon the donee's acceptance compare gift inter vivos at gift donation mor·tis cau·sa [-mȯr-tis-kȯ-zə, -mȯr-tēs-ka-sÄ ] : a donation that is to take effect on the donor's death and that is revocable compare gift causa mortis at gift 3 : something that is transferred by a donation...
Proportion
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...
Proportionally
In proportion in due degree adapted relatively as all parts of the building are proportionally large...
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....
ill proportioned
out of proportion in shape...
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