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        "From Middle English proporcion, from Old French proportion, from Latin prōportiō (“comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy”), from pro (“for, before”) + portio (“share, part”); see portion."
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              "mean": "(countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.\n1907 August,  Robert W Chambers,  chapter VI, in  The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, !”"
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              "mean": "(uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole."
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              "mean": "(countable) Proper or equal share.\n1651,  Jer Taylor,  The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. , 2nd edition, London:    Francis Ashe , →OCLC:Let the women  do the same things in their proportions and capacities."
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              "mean": "The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.\nthe proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body\n1563 March 30​,  John Foxe,  Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, , London:    Iohn Day, , →OCLC:\nThe image of Christ made in Pilate's time after his own proportion.\n1820,  Walter Scott,  Ivanhoe; a Romance. , volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh:    Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. , →OCLC:Formed in the best proportions of her sex."
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              "mean": "(mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios."
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              "mean": "(mathematics, archaic) The \"rule of three\", in which three terms are given to find a fourth."
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              "mean": "(countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.\n1897 December (indicated as 1898),  Winston Churchill,  chapter VIII, in  The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;  . Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.\n2012 May 20,  Nathan Rabin,  “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in  The Onion AV Club:What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?"
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              "mean": "(transitive) To divide into proper shares; to apportion.\n1960 April,  “The braking of trains”, in  Trains Illustrated, page 237:In order to proportion the braking force to the weight carried by a wheel - a matter of special importance in the braking of wagons - variable leverage systems are now being introduced in which the end of one axle spring is linked to a control spring in the change-over valve, so automatically varying the leverage exerted by the brake-rod according to whether the wagon is full or empty."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To form symmetrically."
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              "mean": "(transitive, art) To set or render in proportion."
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              "mean": "(transitive, archaic) To correspond to."
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