Usually means: Relative size of parts compared.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. proportion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. proportion: Merriam-Webster
  3. proportion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. proportion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. proportion: Collins English Dictionary
  6. proportion: Vocabulary.com
  7. Proportion, proportion: Wordnik
  8. proportion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. proportion: Wiktionary
  10. proportion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. proportion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. proportion: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. proportion: Dictionary.com
  14. proportion (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. proportion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Proportion (architecture), Proportion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Proportion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. proportion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. proportion: Rhymezone
  20. proportion, proportion (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. proportion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. proportion: FreeDictionary.org
  23. proportion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. proportion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. proportion: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. proportion: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proportion: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proportion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. proportion: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. proportion: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Proportion, proportion, proportion: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. proportion: UNCChem Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proportion: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See proportioned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
noun:  (uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
noun:  (countable) Proper or equal share.
noun:  The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
noun:  (mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios.
noun:  (mathematics, archaic) The "rule of three", in which three terms are given to find a fourth.
noun:  (countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.
verb:  (transitive) To divide into proper shares; to apportion.
verb:  (transitive) To form symmetrically.
verb:  (transitive, art) To set or render in proportion.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To correspond to.

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