- A part - Relative dimensions or size - 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. - Harmonic relation between parts, or between different
things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment;
symmetry; as, to be out of proportion. - The portion one receives when a whole is distributed by
a rule or principle; equal or proper share; lot. - A part considered comparatively; a share. - The equality or similarity of ratios, especially of
geometrical ratios; or a relation among quantities such that the
quotient of the first divided by the second is equal to that of the
third divided by the fourth; -- called also geometrical proportion, in
distinction from arithmetical proportion, or that in which the
difference of the first and second is equal to the difference of the
third and fourth.
- Evenly - In a uniform manner - To the same degree - In an equal manner or degree in equal shares or
proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference;
alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc.
- A jumble - A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various
ingredients; a hodgepodge. - A blending of property for equality of division, as
when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the
death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to
her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions
among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or
throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person
deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children,
for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares
of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its
value when given.