Proportionality (mathematics) - Wikipedia In mathematics, two sequences of numbers, often experimental data, are proportional or directly proportional if their corresponding elements have a constant ratio
PROPORTIONAL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary How far you go is directly proportional to how fast you go (= as one thing increases, the other increases at exactly the same rate) There's a false idea that physical prowess and intellectual ability are inversely proportional (= as one gets bigger, the other gets smaller)
Proportional - definition of proportional by The Free Dictionary Define proportional proportional synonyms, proportional pronunciation, proportional translation, English dictionary definition of proportional adj 1 Forming a relationship with other parts or quantities; being in proportion
proportional - Wiktionary, the free dictionary proportional (comparative more proportional, superlative most proportional) (mathematics) At a constant ratio (to) Two magnitudes (numbers) are said to be proportional if the second varies in a direct relation arithmetically to the first Symbol: ∝ quotations
Proportionality | Ratio, Constant Inverse | Britannica proportionality, In algebra, equality between two ratios In the expression a b = c d, a and b are in the same proportion as c and d A proportion is typically set up to solve a word problem in which one of its four quantities is unknown
2. 1: Types of Proportionality - Mathematics LibreTexts There are two main types of proportionality We will learn about the more common one first Two quantities are directly proportional if, as one quantity increases, the other quantity also increases at the same rate Direct proportionality describes all of the proportion problems we've seen before