Thesaurus: proportionate

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1. a. Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.
2. v. To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes.
3. adj. being in due proportion
4. adj. agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree
5. adj. exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities
6. Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke. To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes.
7. Adjusted to something else according to a proportion;proportional. Longfellow.What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
8. j:100 a. being in due proportion s. agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree