direct proportion in English

noun
1
the relation between quantities whose ratio is constant.
sensors emit an electronic signal in direct proportion to the amount of light detected

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1. Weight increases in direct proportion to mass.

2. The level of crime in an area is almost always in direct proportion to the number of unemployed.

3. And as the country got wilder, the population grew thinner and loveliness increased in direct proportion to danger.

4. This amount is divided amongst the programme contractors in direct proportion to the net advertising revenue of each (3).

5. Apportioned effort is a method of planning and measuring the earned value for effort that is related in direct proportion to measured effort and is not readily measurable or broken into discrete work packages.