proportion

proporción

Tamaño o cantidad de una parte en relación con otra parte o con el conjunto.

En inglés sencillo: The size or amount of one part compared with another part or the whole.

• A small proportion of students walk to school.
• What proportion of your budget goes on food?
• The proportions of flour and water affect the dough.

Cómo se usa: a proportion of something (A large proportion of our income goes on rent.); in proportion to something (The cost rises in proportion to the size.)

Sinónimos: ratio, share

Expresiones frecuentes: proportion of something, large proportion, in proportion

repartir equitativamente

Dividir algo en partes iguales.

En inglés sencillo: To divide something into equal shares.

• They proportioned the food into equal shares.
• We must proportion the supplies equally among the workers.
• The clerk proportioned the payment among the three owners.

Cómo se usa: proportion something among someone (They proportioned the supplies equally among the teams.)

Sinónimos: divide equally, apportion

Expresiones frecuentes: proportion the supplies, proportion something equally