- directly proportional
- adjective Date: 1796 related by direct variation — compare inversely proportional
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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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 [prəˈpɔːʆnəl ǁ ɔːr ] also pro‧por‧tion‧ate [prəˈpɔːʆnt 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
