Word Meanings - QUOTUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Part or proportion; quota. "A very small quotum." Max Müller.

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• QUOTUM
  Part or proportion; quota. "A very small quotum." Max Müller.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• PROPORTION
  1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his
• QUOTABLE
  Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence. -- Quot`a*bit"i*ty, n. Poe.
• PROPORTIONABLE
  Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• QUOTATIONIST
  One who makes, or is given to making, quotations. The narrow intellectuals of quotationists. Milton.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• PROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being in proportion. Coleridge.
• PROPORTIONATENESS
  The quality or state of being proportionate. Sir M. Hale.
• QUOTA
  A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. "Quota of troops and money." Motley. (more info) what in number, of what number, how many, fr. quot how many, akin to
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• PROPORTIONLESS
  Without proportion; unsymmetrical.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• PROPORTIONABLY
  Proportionally. Locke.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• QUOTATION
  The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named. 4. Quota; share. (more info) 1. The act of quoting or citing. 2. That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated,
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
• DISPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
• IMPROPORTIONABLE
  Not proportionable. B. Jonson.