relative proportion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrelativeandproportion
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relative
adjective
uk/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
being judged or measured in comparison with ...
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proportion
noun
uk/prəˈpɔː.ʃən/us/prəˈpɔːr.ʃən/
the number or amount of a group or part of something when compared to ...
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(Definition ofrelativeandproportionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This distribution of observations represents well therelativeproportionof time children in these classrooms spend each day in each context.
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In addition, the junior students assessed therelativeproportionof the different languages they had used during the last years.
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The participants were also asked to estimate therelativeproportionof the different languages they had used during the last years.
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Therefore, arelativeproportionwas calculated for each of the reading tasks.
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Therelativeproportionbetween apartments and houses (all owner occupied) is changing by the day.
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Therelativeproportionof the two molecular states (folded and ordered, unfolded and disordered), is detectable by calorimetry and a variety of spectroscopic and other physical methods.
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Since recent infections do not occur with equal frequency throughout the year at all localities, therelativeproportionof parasite development stages may change with time.
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Therelativeproportionof microbial crusts varies from one reef to another and even inside a single reef.
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Here we can see that zero that-clauses, unlike the other variant, exclusively take passive predicates without an agent, with therelativeproportionbeing higher in written texts than in spoken.
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Therelativeproportionof people older than age 80 (3.5% of total population in 1990, 3.8% in 1995) is expected to triple between 1990 and 2050.
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One of the terms of the contract is that as the machinery is delivered therelativeproportionof the price be paid.
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Generally speaking, there is arelativeproportionbetween a man's capital and his income.
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The other question was as torelativeproportion.
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Therelativeproportionwill still be exactly the same.
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Therelativeproportionof utility and non-utility cloth is planned at the production stage and the results of the planning are checked at frequent intervals.
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However, therelativeproportionof fatal and serious injuries for seat belt wearers is about half that for non-wearers.
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There is nothing in the paragraph as to the size and therelativeproportionof the representation of the various interests.
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Mention has been made of therelativeproportionof first-class ships during the next two years.
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