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What does proportionality mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) the property of being proportional
  2. (uncountable) the principle that government action ought to be proportional to the ends achieved (e.g. the military should not be deployed to stop petty vandalism)
  3. (countable) the degree to which something is in proportion
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The constant of proportionality was taken to be a universal constant of nature.
Debt would be written off or suspended below a particular benchmark and proportionality would be used above the benchmark.
There must be a reasonable relationship of proportionality between the means employed and the aim sought to be achieved.
Some of these decisions are applications of the requirement of proportionality of punishment to offence.
You said to the committee that the speaking slots were allocated in terms of proportionality.
In between both extremes, there is a range of models of degressive proportionality.

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