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proportion proportions

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nounA proportion of a group or an amount is a part of it.A large proportion of the dolphins in that area will eventually die.A proportion of the rent is met by the city council.The proportion of one kind of person or thing in a group is the number of people or things of that kind compared to the total number of people or things in the group.The proportion of women in the profession had risen to 17.3%.The radio station has to include a substantial proportion of classical music.The proportion of one amount to another is the relationship between the two amounts in terms of how much there is of each thing.Women's bodies tend to have a higher proportion of fat to water.If you refer to the proportions of something, you are referring to its size, usually when this is extremely large.In the tropics plants grow to huge proportions....a fraud of breathtaking proportions.If you refer to the proportions in a work of art or design, you are referring to the relative sizes of its different parts.You can vary the relative proportions of things in a picture very simply. B2

word	proportion
definition	noun A proportion of a group or an amount is a part of it. A large proportion of the dolphins in that area will eventually die. A proportion of the rent is met by the city council. The proportion of one kind of person or thing in a group is the number of people or things of that kind compared to the total number of people or things in the group. The proportion of women in the profession had risen to 17.3%. The radio station has to include a substantial proportion of classical music. The proportion of one amount to another is the relationship between the two amounts in terms of how much there is of each thing. Women's bodies tend to have a higher proportion of fat to water. If you refer to the proportions of something, you are referring to its size, usually when this is extremely large. In the tropics plants grow to huge proportions. ...a fraud of breathtaking proportions. If you refer to the proportions in a work of art or design, you are referring to the relative sizes of its different parts. You can vary the relative proportions of things in a picture very simply.
inflections	proportions
cefr-level	B2

Proportion Things Group Amount Kind Number People Refer