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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Proportionate \Pro*por"tion*ate\, adjective [L. proportionatus. See {Proportion}.] Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. --Longfellow.
What is proportionate to his transgression. --Locke.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Proportionate \Pro*por"tion*ate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Proportionated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Proportionating}.] [Cf. {Proportion}, v.] To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
proportionate
adjective
1: being in due proportion [ant: {disproportionate}]
2: agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree; "the figures are large but the corresponding totals next year will be larger" [syn: {corresponding}, {in proportion to}]
3: exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities [syn: {harmonious}, {symmetrical}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "proportionate": accordant, adequate, affinitive, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, alike, ample, answerable, appertaining, associative, at one, at par, au pair, barely sufficient, coexistent, coexisting, coherent, coincident, coinciding, commensurate, comparable, comparative, compatible, competent, concordant, concurring, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, connective, consentaneous, consentient, consistent, consonant, cooperating, cooperative, correlative, correspondent, corresponding, decent, distributional, distributive, drawn, due, en rapport, enough, equal, equal to, equalized, equivalent, even, even stephen, fifty-fifty, fit, good, good enough, half, half-and-half, halvers, harmonious, in accord, in agreement, in rapport, in sync, in synchronization, inaccordance, inharmony, knotted, level, like, like-minded, linking, minimal, minimum, nip and tuck, of a piece, of like mind, of one mind, on a footing, on a level, on a par, on all fours, on even ground, par, particular, per capita, per head, pertaining, pertinent, plenty, plenty good enough, positive, pro rata, proportionable, proportional, prorated, quits, reconcilable, referable, referring, relating, relational, relative, respective, satisfactory, satisfying, self-consistent, several, square, stalemated, substantial, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing, suitable, symbiotic, sympathetic, synchronized, synchronous, tied, unanimous, uniform, unisonant, unisonous, up to
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