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Definition: Disproportion |
DisproportionNoun1. Lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disproportion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonym: DisproportionSynonym: Disparity. (additional references) |
| Antonym: symmetry (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disagreement | Disparity, mismatch, disproportion; dissimilitude, inequality; disproportionateness; Adjective: variance, divergence, repugnance. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Disproportion |
| English words defined with "disproportion": Disproportioned, Disproportioning ♦ Imparity, Incorrespondency ♦ Malconformation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disproportion": Awkward Construction ♦ Labor Complications. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Disproportion" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (disproportion), Swedish (disproportion, incommensurability). |
| Author | Quotation |
Napoleon Bonaparte | The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And five years product is not worth the perpetual inheritance of land, where all is possessed, and none remains waste, to be taken up by him that is disseized: which will be easily granted, if one do but take away the imaginary value of money, the disproportion being more than between five and five hundred; though, at the same time, half a year's product is more worth than the inheritance, where there being more land than the inhabitants possess and make use of, any one has liberty to make use of the waste: but there conquerors take little care to possess themselves of the lands of the vanquished, No damage therefore, that men in the state of nature (as all princes and governments are in reference to one another) suffer from one another, can give a conqueror power to dispossess the posterity of the vanquished, and turn them out of that inheritance, which ought to be the possession of them and their descendants to all generations. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Economy | Ghana | Ghanaians value the relationship highly, although the disproportion between the size and wealth of the two countries occasionally leads to divergent perspectives. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Disproportion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Disproportion" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "disproportion": disproportion in age. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
disproportion | 8 |
cephalopelvic disproportion | 8 |
congenital disproportion fiber type | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "disproportion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shpërpjesëtim, mungesë simetrie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لا تناغم (disharmony), تفاوت (contrast, difference, disparity, inequality, variance, vary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | несъразмерност (disparity, incommensurability, inequality), непропорционалност. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不相". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | disproporce, nesoumìrnost, nepomìr (imbalance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | عدم تجانس (Incongruity), بی قوارگی , بی تناسب (Grotesque, Incommensurate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suhteettomuus (lack of proportion), epäsuhta, epäsuhde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | disproportion. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | missverhältnis (discrepancy, disparity, disproportionateness, imbalance, incongruity, maladjustment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δυσαναλογία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אי "תאמ" (disagreement, discrepancy, inaptitude, maladjustment, misfit, nonconformity), חוסר יחס. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | aránytalanság (disproportionateness), egyenlőtlenség (disparity, inequality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ketidakseimbangan (imbalance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sproporzione. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | misforhold. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isproportionday refutação (impugnment, rebuttal, refutation). (various references) disproporţie (disparity). (various references) несоразмерность (disparity), непропорциональность. (various references) disproprcija. (various references) desproporción. (various references) disproportion (incommensurability), missförhållande (abuse, anomaly, wrong). (various references) oransızlık (imbalance, imparity, irrationality, the irrational). (various references) робити непропорційним, нерозмірність, диспропорція (overproportion). (various references) sự thiếu cân xứng, sự thiếu cân đối, sự không tỷ lệ, sự không cân xứng (lop-sidedness), sự không cân đối (unsymmetry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "disproportion": disproportional, disproportionate, disproportionated, disproportionately, disproportionates, disproportionating, disproportionation, disproportionations, disproportioned, disproportioning, disproportions. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-i-n-o-o-o-p-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: proportions, proposition. | |
-3 letters: opposition, proportion. | |
-4 letters: propositi, protopods. | |
-5 letters: doorpost, doorstop, indorsor, iodopsin, portions, position, positron, protopod, sorption. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-i-n-o-o-o-p-p-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: disproportions. | |
+2 letters: disproportional, disproportioned. | |
+3 letters: disproportionate, disproportioning. | |
+4 letters: disproportionated, disproportionates. | |
+5 letters: disproportionately, disproportionating, disproportionation. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01110010 01101111 01110000 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s p r o p o r t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0070 0072 006F 0070 006F 0072 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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