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Adjective: proportionate  pru'por-shu-nut
  1. Being in due proportion
    "proportionate representation of a minority group"
     
  2. Agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree
    "The punishment should be proportionate to the crime"
     
  3. Exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities
    "The proportionate response was appropriate to the situation";
    - harmonious, symmetrical

See also: balanced, commensurate, per capita, pro rata, proportionable [archaic], proportional, relative

Antonym: disproportional

Encyclopedia: Proportionate