proportions
比例,比率,百分比,规模
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Definitions
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- : comparative relation between things or magnitudes as to size, quantity, number, etc.; ratio.
- : proper relation between things or parts: to have tastes way out of proportion to one's financial means.
- : relative size or extent.
- : proportions, dimensions or size: a rock of gigantic proportions.
- : a portion or part in its relation to the whole: A large proportion of the debt remains.
- : symmetry, harmony, or balance: an architect with a sense of proportion.
- : the significance of a thing or event that an objective view reveals: You must try to see these mishaps in proportion.
- : Mathematics. a relation of four quantities such that the first divided by the second is equal to the third divided by the fourth; the equality of ratios.Compare rule of three.
- : Archaic. analogy; comparison.
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Examples
The island faces an environmental challenge of huge proportions.
To test out a doll he designed to have realistic human proportions, Nickolay Lamm went to a group of second-graders in Pittsburgh.
That corruption, says Stafford Smith, provided the opportunity for a “frame-up of epic proportions.”
In recent years, the problem has grown to epidemic proportions.
Note, Faircloth says “characters' proportions,” not just the female ones.
It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
The latter-named proportions may in some measure account for "what becomes of the pins?"
He threw out his arms, as if trying to indicate the proportions of a great world or of an enormous ocean.
It not only brought about the instant beginnings of the siege, but its proportions were grossly exaggerated in the public eye.
Here Letty drew the coverlet from the face of the sleeping babe, and displayed his chubby proportions with maternal pride.