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# proportionally

adverb

«proportionally» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. In a way that keeps the same ratio, so that when one amount changes, the other changes by the same scale: «If you double the recipe, increase everything proportionally.» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proportionally/#m1)
2. Fairly and in the right size compared with something else: «Punishments should be given proportionally.» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proportionally/#m2)

### In the lessons

In maths, cooking, maps and science, things that change proportionally keep the same ratio. In fairness and law it means not too much and not too little. Phrases: «increase proportionally», «proportionally more», «shared proportionally».

### Examples

- If you double the cake recipe, add all the ingredients proportionally. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proportionally/#x1)
- The map shrinks the whole country proportionally. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proportionally/#x2)
- The prize money was shared proportionally to how much each person paid. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proportionally/#x3)
- Big dogs eat proportionally more than small dogs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proportionally/#x4)
- When you resize a photo, keep the sides proportionally the same. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proportionally/#x5)
- The punishment should be proportionally fair to what was done. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proportionally/#x6)

### Note

Adjective: proportional; noun: proportion. Maths: if y is proportional to x, y = k × x, so doubling x doubles y (2 pens cost £3, so 4 pens cost £6). «Proportionally» is the same as «in proportion».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «proportionally» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proportionally/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«proportionally» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/proportionally.html) on Mova free.