directly proportional

directly proportional
adjective Date: 1796 related by direct variationcompare inversely proportional

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  • Directly proportional — Directly Di*rect ly, adv. 1. In a direct manner; in a straight line or course. To run directly on. Shak. [1913 Webster] Indirectly and directly too Thou hast contrived against the very life Of the defendant. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. In a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • directly proportional — (to sth) ► if two amounts are directly proportional, when one increases, the other increases and when one goes down, the other goes down: »CO2 emissions from motor vehicles are directly proportional to the amount of fuel consumed and its carbon… …   Financial and business terms

  • directly proportional — adjective : related by direct variation compare inversely proportional herein * * * adj : related so that one becomes larger or smaller when the other becomes larger or smaller His earnings are directly proportional to the number of units he… …   Useful english dictionary

  • directly proportional to sth — directly proportional (to sth) ► if two amounts are directly proportional, when one increases, the other increases and when one goes down, the other goes down: »CO2 emissions from motor vehicles are directly proportional to the amount of fuel… …   Financial and business terms

  • directly proportional — adjective proportional to a constant multiple of an independent variable …   Wiktionary

  • Directly proportional — Прямо пропорциональный …   Краткий толковый словарь по полиграфии

  • proportional — pro‧por‧tio‧nal [prəˈpɔːʆnəl ǁ ɔːr ] also pro‧por‧tion‧ate [prəˈpɔːʆnt ǁ ɔːr ] adjective something that is proportional to something else is related to it in terms of size, amount, importance etc: • The fee charged by the realtor is directly… …   Financial and business terms

  • Proportional reasoning — Proportional ReasoningProportionality is a mathematical relation between two quantities. Proportional reasoning is one of the skills a child acquires when progressing from the stage of concrete operations to the stage of formal operations… …   Wikipedia

  • Directly — Di*rect ly, adv. 1. In a direct manner; in a straight line or course. To run directly on. Shak. [1913 Webster] Indirectly and directly too Thou hast contrived against the very life Of the defendant. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. In a straightforward… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • proportional — adj. VERBS ▪ be ADVERB ▪ approximately, roughly ▪ The amount of food a child needs is roughly proportional to her size. ▪ directly …   Collocations dictionary

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