Proportion vs Area - What's the difference?
proportion | area | Synonyms |
(lb) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion —which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,!”
(lb) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
(lb) Proper or equal share.
*(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
*:Let the womendo the same things in their proportions and capacities.
The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
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*(Lancelot Ridley) (ca.1500-1576)
*:The image of Christ, made after his own proportion .
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:Formed in the best proportions of her sex.
* (1800-1859)
*:Documents are authentic and facts are true precisely in proportion to the support which they afford to his theory.
A statement of equality between two ratios.
Size.
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, title= (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
A particular geographic region.
Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
Figuratively, any extent, scope or range of an object or concept.
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(soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
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Proportion is a synonym of area.
As nouns the difference between proportion and area
is that proportion is proportion while area is area.proportion
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Noun
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992), work=The Onion AV Club , passage=What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?}}
Derived terms
* in proportion * proportional * proportionally * proportionate * proportionerExternal links
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- (Charles Dickens)
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