(a.) Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(2) Several studies have found that pollution and climate change disproportionately affect the poor , which means boosting clean energy generation and cutting pollution could also simultaneously reduce global inequality .
(3) Cardiologists were disproportionately represented among the high-cost users.
(4) Chlorine dioxide disproportionation products, chlorite and chlorate, were not active disinfectants.
(5) It’s been widely reported that black people are disproportionately harmed by the mortgage market.
(6) The infection probably affected all sex and age classes, but field surveys of live animals and mortality suggested that mature rams died disproportionately.
(7) This review indicates that abused women use a disproportionate amount of health care services including emergency rooms visits, primary care, and community mental health center visits.
(8) Unlike SI, which possesses a disproportionately large representation of the rostrum, SII has no specialized representation of the rostrum.
(9) The council offered him a tea urn | Frances Ryan Read more Government attempts to decrease the disproportionately high levels of unemployment among disabled people have had little impact, the report notes, while notorious “fit-for-work” tests were riven with flaws.
(10) In the goitres with low T3 of treated patients, T4 was also reduced but disproportionately to T3.
(11) It results from statistical disproportionation of the singly occupied complex in the gel.
(12) However, when compared to the normal growing pancreas, the level of proto-oncogene expression in the adenomas and carcinomas was disproportionate to the degree of cellular division in those tissues.
(13) The result is that, when natural selection favors increased enzyme activity so as to maximize flux, a point of diminishing returns will be attained in which any increase in flux results in a disproportionately small increase in fitness.
(14) One that sentimentality is obsessed by while funds are disproportionately siphoned away from the other 20,933 species facing extinction .
(15) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
(16) T8 cells were disproportionately decreased, with a significant resultant increase in the T4:T8 ratios.
(17) In acid and alkaline solution the radicals rapidly disappear by disproportionation, but within the approximate pH range 6 to 11 they appear to be relatively stable for at least 10-20 ms, existing in transient equilibrium with parent adriamycin and the full reduced form.
(18) Oxidation of two tryptophans also leads to a disproportionately large decrease in fluorescence intensity.
(19) Excessively optimistic judgements of driving competency and accident risk have often been implicated in the disproportionate involvement of young males in traffic crashes.
(20) To date, a disproportionate amount of effort may have been spent on deciphering putative intracellular regulatory mechanisms, without knowing some essential fundamental properties of the Na+-Pi-COT.
Proportionate
Definition:
(a.) Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.
(v.) To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The total population, however, will increase with decrease of either of these two factors, whilst the number of diseased will also increase proportionately.
(2) These changes were associated with proportionate alterations in IL-6 mRNA accumulation.
(3) Because the contour length of these loops was proportionate to the DNA content of the superinfecting lambda phage, it was concluded that the fibers contained DNA condensed 6.5-fold in blocks of about 250 base pairs.
(4) Although serum total LDH activity was not altered, the LD5 isoenzyme was proportionately higher in the HCH isomers treated animals.
(5) Source: Mediacells (Or view the map at OpenHeatMap ) At the other end of the scale, a number of countries will see proportionately few new buyers - suggesting that the remaining featurephone owners are declining to upgrade to more powerful phones.
(6) Now we need parliament to step in to fix what should have been fixed a long time ago.” In relation to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, the IPT found that “email communications ... were lawfully and proportionately intercepted and accessed ...
(7) This is a decline of 58% from the 2 week level, and the decrease is proportionately similar in the corticospinal area and the dorsal funiculus proper.
(8) Analyses of body composition indicated DHEA-treated animals had proportionately less body fat and therefore more body water, protein and ash than controls.
(9) The lowest incidence of hypoglycemia was observed in the group with severe proportionate retardation (weight deficit for age > 30%; length deficit for age > 15%).
(10) Trends were analyzed over 7 years (1979-85), and results were discussed from three aspects: number and rates for comorbidity of injuries and accidents with alcohol-related diagnoses, percent of alcohol involvement for injuries and accidents, and proportionate morbidity for alcohol-related and nonalcohol-related injuries and accidents.
(11) Activated partial thromboplastin time was prolonged, and factor II coagulation activity and factor II antigen were proportionately decreased in cord plasma in both groups.
(12) However, large- (1A) and intermediate- (2A) sized arterioles dilated proportionately more in TR than in SED rats during 1- to 8-Hz muscle contractions, even though the passive mechanical properties (circumference-passive wall tension relationships) were similar between groups.
(13) We believe that listening to staff and empowering them to improve and contribute means there is likely to be a proportionate improvement in our patients' experience.
(14) Indigenous man's death in custody blamed on NT 'paperless arrest' powers Read more In line with the findings of the royal commission, Cavanagh said the increased number of Indigenous people in custody would likely lead to a proportionate increase in custodial deaths.
(15) The responses of the former were proportionately greater.
(16) 12.52pm GMT: Talks about the concept of a just war: the use of proportionate force, not harming civilians.
(17) The size of the TNBS-accessible radiolabeled PE pool increased proportionately with a second stimulation; however, a subsequent labeling of the cells with TNBS after brief warming increased the TNBS-accessible pool in control cells only.
(18) After VE, cardiac output increased proportionately more in AC (69% vs. 27%); however, the absolute increases were not different.
(19) Although smoking was associated with selective induction of the formation of 3-methylxanthine and 1-methyluric acid, the effect of cimetidine was nonselective and the proportionate inhibitory effects of cimetidine on theophylline metabolism did not differ with age or smoking status.
(20) This resulted in proportionate increases in the content of these lipid constituents compared with that of triacylglycerol in the nascent VLDL.