(n.) The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body.
(n.) Harmonic relation between parts, or between different things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment; symmetry; as, to be out of proportion.
(n.) The portion one receives when a whole is distributed by a rule or principle; equal or proper share; lot.
(n.) A part considered comparatively; a share.
(n.) The equality or similarity of ratios, especially of geometrical ratios; or a relation among quantities such that the quotient of the first divided by the second is equal to that of the third divided by the fourth; -- called also geometrical proportion, in distinction from arithmetical proportion, or that in which the difference of the first and second is equal to the difference of the third and fourth.
(n.) The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional.
(v.) To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its height; to proportion our expenditures to our income.
(v.) To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body.
(v.) To divide into equal or just shares; to apportion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The proportion of teeth per child with calculus was approximately 8 percent for supragingival and 4 percent for subgingival calculus.
(2) The proportion of motile spermatozoa decreased with time at the same rate when samples were prepared in either HEPES or phosphate buffers.
(3) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(4) Lp(a) also complexes to plasmin-fibrinogen digests, and binding increases in proportion to the time of plasmin-induced fibrinogen degradation.
(5) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(6) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(7) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
(8) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
(9) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
(10) At a fixed concentration of nucleotide the effectiveness of elution was proportional to the charge on the eluting molecule.
(11) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(12) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(13) Little difference exists between the proportion of programs that offer training in first-trimester techniques and the proportion that train in second-trimester techniques.
(14) B and C, were identified and their relative proportions shown to be considerably greater in the foetus than in the adult.
(15) The distance of nucleoid sedimentation increased as a function of exposure temperature and exposure time, and was proportional to an increased protein to DNA ratio in the nucleoids.
(16) The fragile site at 10q25 was expressed in larger proportions of malignant than normal cells.
(17) The failure rates of the 2 regimens to suppress lactation were similar; however, rebound lactation occurred in a small proportion of women treated with bromocriptine.
(18) The antibody-hapten profiles revealed that the DNCB-fed animalss contained predominatly IgG2 in their serum by the time of their initial bleedings, whereas sensitized animals still contained a considerable proportion of more acidic antibodies having marked charge heterogeneity.
(19) The resistance proved to be directly dependent upon the specific antisense RNA and to be inversely proportional to the multiplicity of infecting polyoma.
(20) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
Shrinkage
Definition:
(n.) The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.
(n.) The amount of such contraction; the bulk or dimension lost by shrinking, as of grain, castings, etc.
(n.) Decrease in value; depreciation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tumor shrinkage was documented by A-scan ultrasonography in all but one patient.
(2) Results suggest that these resins should be used with some method to compensate for the shrinkage, when used as index material.
(3) Since all human cadaveric tissue is fixed whilst on the skeleton, we may assume that shrinkage of the muscles in such specimens is negligible.
(4) Clofibrate and its analogs (halofenate and beta-benzalbutyrate) produced significant hepatomegaly (mean responses of +18, +18 and +10%, respectively) whereas oxandrolone produced significant hepatic shrinkage (-10%)(P less than .05).
(5) Hypertrophy of the satellite cells with increase in the perineuronal intercellular spaces, often associated with irregular, scalloped nuclear and cell outlines, suggested that neuron shrinkage had occurred.
(6) In Patient 2, rhinorrhoea and presumably entry of infection was facilitated by unplugging of a defect in the wall of the sphenoid sinus by bromocriptine-induced shrinkage of the pituitary adenoma.
(7) During negative equilibrium gas in the bubble gradually simulates tissue gas with eventual shrinkage of the bubble.
(8) Dehydration in ethanol and propylene oxide produces a further 10% shrinkage in volume.
(9) Angioscopy provided cross-sectional topographic views of thrombosed lumen and showed charring and shrinkage of thrombus following laser angioplasty.
(10) Marked net cation loss and cell shrinkage occurred in the absence of a chemical gradient for Na and K. This voltage-dependent increase in Na and K conductance is partially inhibited by 10 microM ruthenium red and persists when the membrane potential is returned to -10 mV after transient exposure to inside-positive potentials.
(11) Overall extensibility of the fixed material was significantly greater than that for the fresh tissue, consistent with a 10.7% shrinkage in aldehydes calculated from strain at fracture data.
(12) In vitro, NGF withdrawal from septal neurons initially grown in the presence of NGF did not result in the death of old cholinergic neurons in these tissue cultures but did result in a down-regulation of transmitter-associated enzymes, accompanied by cholinergic cell shrinkage and a reduction in fiber density.
(13) A chronic, progressive disease, CP is characterized by shrinkage of the conjunctiva, symblepharon, entropion, trichiasis, dry eye, and finally reduced vision from corneal opacification.
(14) There are no significant differences of shrinkage temperature and ultimate tensile stress among all tissue samples pretreated with GA, EP 1# and EP 2#.
(15) These data support the hypothesis of regional variations in the severity of cerebral cortical damage in alcoholism with shrinkage of neurons in most regions examined but neuronal loss only in the superior frontal gyrus.
(16) 40:820-823) showed that the shrinkage is due to a mechanochemical coupling between the elasticity of the network and the osmotic stress arising from preferential exclusion of PEG.
(17) After heat treatment, the test piece was examined for compressive strength, compressive shrinkage, hardness, tarnishing and difference in phase.
(18) This could be explained on the basis of a selective loss of larger neurones rather than a general shrinkage of all neurones.
(19) Comparisons with animals monocularly deprived for similar periods indicate, however, that in 3 of these animals the undeprived parvocellular cells would have been markedly hypertrophied at the time of reopening the deprived eye, and in two of the animals, little shrinkage of the deprived parvocellular cells would have occurred by this time.
(20) A significant correlation was observed between the shrinkage during the treatment period and the local control at 150 days, for three of the four fractionated schedules.