Word Meanings - PROPORTIONMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or process of dividing out proportionally.

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• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• DIVIDUOUS
  Divided; dividual. He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge.
• DIVIDEDLY
  Separately; in a divided manner.
• DIVIDINGLY
  By division.
• DIVIDED
  Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; - - said of a leaf. (more info) 1. Parted; disunited; distributed.
• DIVIDUALLY
  By dividing.
• DIVIDUAL
  Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. Milton.
• DIVIDANT
  Different; distinct. Shak.
• PROCESSIONING
  A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. Bouvier.
• PROCESS PLATE
  A plate prepared by a mechanical process, esp. a photomechanical process. A very slow photographic plate, giving good contrasts between high lights and shadows, used esp. for making lantern slides.
• PROCESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession. The processional services became more frequent. Milman.
• PROCESSIONER
  1. One who takes part in a procession. 2. A manual of processions; a processional. Fuller.
• DIVIDING
  That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars ; also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. . See under Sinker.
• DIVIDE
  To subject to arithmetical division. (more info) cf. Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to L. vidua widow, and E. widow. 1. To part asunder ; to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. Divide the living child in
• PROCESS
  Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis. (more info) 1. The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance. "Long process of time." Milton. The thoughts of men are widened with the
• DIVIDABLE
  1. Capable of being divided; divisible. 2. Divided; separated; parted. Shak.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• INDIVIDUALIZER
  One who individualizes.
• SUBDIVIDE
  To divide the parts of into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• BASIC PROCESS
  A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.
• PAYNE'S PROCESS
  A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.
• FLOTATION PROCESS
  A process of separating the substances contained in pulverized ore or the like by depositing the mixture on the surface of a flowing liquid, the substances that are quickly wet readily overcoming the surface tension of the liquid and sinking, the
• REDIVIDE
  To divide anew.
• UNDIVIDUAL
  Indivisible. True courage and courtesy are undividual companions. Fuller.
• MISDIVIDE
  To divide wrongly.
• INDIVIDUATE
  Undivided.
• INDIVIDUATOR
  One who, or that which, individuates. Sir K. Digby.