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Apportionment vs Proportionate - What's the difference?

apportionment | proportionate |

As a noun apportionment

is the act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.

As an adjective proportionate is

in proportion; proportional; commensurable.

As a verb proportionate is

to make proportionate.

apportionment

English

Noun

(wikipedia apportionment) (en noun)
  • The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
  • *
  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment .
  • (lb) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
  • (lb) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.

    • proportionate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In proportion; proportional; commensurable.
  • * John Locke
    • What is proportionate to his transgression.
  • Harmonious and symmetrical.

    • Antonyms

    * (in proportion) disproportionate, nonproportionate, unproportionate * (harmonious and symmetrical)

    Verb

    (proportionat)
  • To make proportionate.

    • See also

    * apportion English heteronyms ----