proportionally

proportional | American Dictionary

proportional
adjective
us/prəˈpɔr·ʃə·nəl/(alsoproportionate, us/prəˈpɔr·ʃə·nət/)
in correct relation to:
The degree of punishment is meant to be proportional to the seriousness of the crime.
mathematics
Proportional also means that two things have the same size relationship or ratio.

proportionally

adverbus/prəˈpɔr·ʃə·nəl·i/(alsoproportionately, us/prəˈpɔr·ʃə·nət·li/)

proportional | Business English

proportional
adjective
uk /prəˈpɔːʃənəl/us(alsoproportionate)
if two amounts are proportional, they change at the same rate, so that the relationship between them does not change:
proportional to sthThey introduced an annual property tax proportional to the market value of the property.
 directly proportional (to sth)
if two amounts are directly proportional, when one increases, the other increases and when one goes down, the other goes down:
CO2 emissions from motor vehicles are directly proportional to the amount of fuel consumed and its carbon content.
 inversely proportional (to sth)
if two amounts are inversely proportional, when one increases, the other goes down and when one goes down, the other increases:
E-business knowledge is generally inversely proportional to both age and rank in the organisation.

Examples of proportional

proportional
The size of the drop leading a plume is roughly proportional to the initial thickness of the layer.
Now that we can differentiate systematic non-proportionality from the effects of random error and lumpiness, let us look again at the issue of proportional allocations.
The remaining joints will be slowed proportional to the slow joint motion.
The authors motivate their numerical results with symbolic calculations, defining a replication probability that is inversely proportional to plasmid concentration.
The data also raise questions about government stability in majoritarian and proportional systems.
The slip-law we use here assumes that the slip coefficient is directly proportional to the local thickness of the film.
The gradient-transfer approximation is based on the hypothesis of a turbulent flux proportional to the gradient of the concentration.
Since the gap capacitance is inversely proportional to the gap distance d, as d decreases, the prepulse increases.
Functional differential equations with proportional delays are usually referred to as pantograph equations or generalized pantograph equations.
Risk-free investment pays a fixed anticipated return, and the gain is simply proportional to the amount invested.
These estimates include undiscovered species believed to exist, and are roughly proportional to numbers of currently known species.
The salts are exerted from the 'cultivator' at a rate proportional to their concentration.
In addition, the force exerted on the particle is also proportional to the laser intensity.
A visual servo control scheme that adopts proportional control in the visual loop for reducing the servo lagging is proposed using output disturbance feedforward compensation.
The electro-pneumatic valves have within them analogue circuitry that regulates the output pressure to be proportional to input voltage.
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