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disproportion

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dis·pro·por·tion  (dspr-pôrshn, -pr-)
n.
1. Absence of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation: the disproportion between the gravity of geopolitical events and the time available to deal with them.
2. An instance of a disproportionate relation.
tr.v. dis·pro·por·tioned, dis·pro·por·tion·ing, dis·pro·por·tions
To make disproportionate.
disproportion
Noun
lack of proportion or equality
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.disproportion - lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something
disparity - inequality or difference in some respect
symmetry, proportion - balance among the parts of something
Translations
disproportion [dɪsprəˈpɔːʃən] n → desproporción f
disproportion [dɪsprəˈpɔːʃən] n → disproportion f
disproportion [dɪsprəˈpɔːʃən] n → Missverhältnis nt
disproportion [dɪsprəˈpɔːʃən] n → sproporzione f


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A numerous nobility causeth poverty, and inconvenience in a state; for it is a surcharge of expense; and besides, it being of necessity, that many of the nobility fall, in time, to be weak in fortune, it maketh a kind of disproportion, between honor and means.
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The disproportion in their fortune was nothing; it did not give her a moment's regret; but to have no family to receive and estimate him properly, nothing of respectability, of harmony, of good will to offer in return for all the worth and all the prompt welcome which met her in his brothers and sisters, was a source of as lively pain as her mind could well be sensible of under circumstances of otherwise strong felicity.
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They mistake their carriage and its horizontal lines for a proper measure of the normal plain, and therefore all the objects outside which really are in a horizontal position must show a disproportion of twenty to twenty-five degrees declivity, in regard to the mountain.
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