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Proportion vs Breadth - What's the difference?

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Proportion is a synonym of breadth.


As nouns the difference between proportion and breadth

is that proportion is proportion while breadth is the extent or measure of how broad or wide something is.

proportion

English

Noun

  • (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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    Derived terms

    * in proportion * proportional * proportionally * proportionate * proportioner

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (arts) To set or render in proportion.
  • breadth

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is.
  • A piece of fabric of standard width.
  • Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.
  • (math) (graph theory ) the length of the longest path between two vertices on a graph
  • Synonyms

    * (extent or measure of how broad something is) width * (piece of fabric of standard width) * (scope or range) extent, range, scope, size

    Derived terms

    * acre breadth * bizygomatic breadth * breadth of accommodation * breadthen * breadth-first search * breadth-first traversal * breadth-height index * breadth index * breadth indicator * breadthless * breadth-line * breadth of effect * breadth of market * breadth-of-market theory * breadth of mind * breadth of the market * breadth of tone * breadth-riders * breadthways * breadthwise * curve of constant breadth * finger-breadth, fingerbreadth * finger's breadth * foot-breadth, footbreadth * hairbreadth * hair's breadth, hairsbreadth * handbreadth, hand's breadth, handsbreadth * index of breadth * straw-breadth, straw's breadth