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Proration vs Peroration - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between proration and peroration

is that proration is budgeting the proportional distribution or allocation of parameters, such as noise power and transmission losses, among a number of tandem-connected items, such as equipment, cables, links, or trunks, in order to balance the performance of communications circuits while peroration is the concluding section of a discourse, either written or oral, in which the orator or writer sums up and commends his topic to his audience, particularly as used in the technical sense of a component of ancient Roman oratorical delivery.

proration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (telecommunication) budgeting the proportional distribution or allocation of parameters, such as noise power and transmission losses, among a number of tandem-connected items, such as equipment, cables, links, or trunks, in order to balance the performance of communications circuits.
  • (telecommunication) In a telephone switching center, the distribution or allocation of equipment or components proportionally among a number of functions, to provide a requisite grade of service.
  • (accounting) In the insurance industry, the act of taking money that is currently due from the insurance company and moving it to the patient, knowing that the dollar amount being moved is due from the patient as a deductible, coinsurance, or copayment amount.

    • References

    * (telecommunication) Federal Standard 1037C * (telecommunication) MIL-STD-188

    peroration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The concluding section of a discourse, either written or oral, in which the orator or writer sums up and commends his topic to his audience, particularly as used in the technical sense of a component of ancient Roman oratorical delivery.
  • *1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.20:
  • *:This passage is virtually the peroration of the Ethics ; the few paragraphs that follow are concerned with the transition to politics.
  • *1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), page 480:
  • *:The young man achieved perfect timing, for the last word of his peroration coincided with the muffled clap of the doors closing, after having launched the coffin onto the rails of a subterranean railway.
  • A discourse or rhetorical argument in general.
  • * , King Henry VI Part II , act 1, scene 1:
    • Nephew, what means this passionate discourse,
    This peroration with such circumstance?

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