proportionally

Thân thiện

Your salary increases proportionally with your workload.

Definition

1. Adverb:
   • In a way that corresponds in size, amount, or degree to something else: It describes an action or change that happens at a rate or scale that maintains a consistent relationship or ratio with another factor.

Usage

• The adverb "proportionally" is used to describe how one quantity changes relative to another. It indicates that two things increase or decrease together, maintaining the same ratio.
• It is often used in mathematical, economic, and comparative contexts.
• It can frequently be interchanged with "proportionately."

Examples

• Adverb:
  • Taxes are calculated proportionally to income. (The amount of tax increases at the same rate as income increases.)
  • Resources were distributed proportionally based on each department's size. (Larger departments received more resources, maintaining a fair ratio.)
  • As the company grows, its charitable donations increase proportionally. (The donations scale up at a consistent rate with the company's growth.)

Advanced Usage

• "proportionally related": Having a connection where one element scales directly with another.
  • The risk of injury is proportionally related to the speed of the vehicle.
• "vary proportionally": To change at the same relative rate.
  • In an ideal gas, pressure and temperature vary proportionally when volume is constant.

Variants and Related Words

• Proportionate (adjective): Corresponding in size or amount to something else.
  • The punishment was proportionate to the crime.
• Proportion (noun): A part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole.
  • A large proportion of the budget is spent on research.
• Proportionately (adverb): Synonym for proportionally; in proportion.
  • The funds were allocated proportionately.

Synonyms

• Correspondingly: In an analogous or comparable manner.
• Equivalently: In a way that is equal in value, amount, or meaning.
• In proportion: Maintaining the correct or appropriate relationship in size, amount, or degree.

Antonyms

• Disproportionately: To an extent that is too large or too small in comparison with something else.
• Unequally: In a way that is not the same in amount, size, or value.

Related Phrases

• Directly proportional: (Technical phrase) Having a constant ratio between two quantities.
  • The force applied is directly proportional to the acceleration produced.
• Scale proportionally: To increase or decrease in size while maintaining the same relative dimensions or relationships.
  • The design allows the model to scale proportionally for production.

Học thuật

Adverb

1. to a proportionate degree
   • your salary will rise proportionately to your workload

Từ đồng nghĩa

• proportionately