" proportion "

 [ "proportion" ]

1: An activist group lobbying right to equal portions.

  * e.g.,  ... Make sure you ensure your proportion is rightfully allocated and righteously affiliated. 

 [ "proport" ]

1: A written report based on numbers; A document characterized by claims that specific quantities have a direct result on the intended purpose of the document;

  * e.g.,  ... verb: Proports: The juice concentrate package proports; a 1:3 mix to water ratio. noun: Proport: The proport claimed false ingredients. 

 [ "proportional" ]

1: Corresponding

  * e.g.,  ... The crime should be proportional to the punishment. 

 [ "googlical proportions" ]

1: when a private matter becomes so well-known to the public, it can be looked up on the internet.

  * e.g.,  ... When the Dean’s wife was caught in the act with an undergraduate, they tried to keep it under wraps – but word got out, and the story soon reached googlical proportions. 

 [ "Dyslexicly proportional" ]

1: xy is dyslexicly proportional to yx. The law of dyslexic proportionality states that any numbers or letters that are directly transposed can be constituted as correctly documented based on the leeway of human error.

  * e.g.,  ... Student: While reviewing the results of my math test I want to prove that my answer is dyslexicly proportional to the correct answer. Teacher: Really; what do you mean by dyslexicly proportional? 

 [ "biblical proportions" ]

1: This refers to something which happens on the grandest scale possible on earth. This includes apocalypse, major war etc.

  * e.g.,  ... We cannot allow you to continue research on this weapon, it would cause a disaster of biblical proportions. 

 [ "Constrain Proportions" ]

1: The application or employment of a process or feature by which an artist will ensure both the ratio AND perspective of an image remain relative to that of the original image. Failure to "constrain proportions" has resulted in many innocent men being "duped" on internet dating sites (and the like), sustaining an eternal loss of essential "crop points."

  * e.g.,  ... TA:"I'm tryin to photoshop that sikk pic you got of me killin' a keg stand at the Rutgers party, Nig." "Everytime I resample, I end up lookin like Nicole Richie doin' a headstand on a Heineken keg can." 

 [ "Inversely proportional" ]

1: The opposite to directly proportional. A mathematical relationship between two things that can be given by the equation y = k/x, where k is a constant value.

  * e.g.,  ... The speed of an object is inversely proportional to the time taken to travel the distance. 

 [ "Inversely proportional" ]

2: In other words, as one increases, the other decreases by the same amount. Produces a sloped curve going downwards to a plateau with an x- axis asymptote.

 [ "proportional representation" ]

1: Just a side note: If you aren't familiar with the various electoral (voting) systems around the world, please do not read this as the wording may confuse you.

  * e.g.,  ... If a party wins 45% of the popular vote, it'd be entitled to 45% of the seats under the basic concept of proportional representation. 

 [ "proportional representation" ]

2: An electoral (i.e., voting) process in which full representation of all parties who have received votes is achieved by closely matching the percentage of party votes to the percentage of seats allocated in legislative assemblies.

  * e.g.,  ... Party-List PR is where you vote for a party (closed-list) or number candidates on a list (open-list). 

 [ "proportional representation" ]

3: There are 3 known ways of achieving proportional representation (PR) in electoral systems.

  * e.g.,  ... Additional-Member PR or Mixed-Member PR is where you get two votes, one for your electorate, the other for a party. 

 [ "proportional representation" ]

4:  Party-List PR: There's a list of pre-determined candidates (closed-list) or candidates that the voters can rank (open-list), along with some mathematical formula of allocating the seats (D'Hondt or Sainte-Lague). Countries which use Party-List PR include Israel (where the country is one closed-list constituency) and the Netherlands (open-list).

  * e.g.,  ... Single Transferable Vote is where you rank candidates and they have to achieve a quota based on votes and vacant seats in multi-member constituencies in order to be elected. 

 [ "proportional representation" ]

5:  Additional-Member System (AMS), Mixed-Member System (MMS): Two votes, one vote for a legislator (MP -- Member of Parliament -- in places like the UK and New Zealand) to represent a single-member constituency (under plurality voting), the other vote for a party (under party-list PR). In places like Germany, a certain number of seats are blockaded off for party-based legislators. Besides Germany, New Zealand uses this (along with calculating party-list seats via the Sainte-Lague method) for its House of Representatives.

  * e.g.,  ... The 1998 Jenkins Commission recommended Alternative Vote Top-Up as an alternative to the UK's current First-Past-The-Post (a.k.a. plurality winner, winner-take-all) voting system. 

 [ "proportional representation" ]

6:  Single Transferable Vote (STV) (in a multi-member constituency): Usually 3 to 6 candidates per constituency. Voters number their ballot according to their preferences. The first preferences are calculated first and candidates must achieve a quota (determined by the number of votes and the number of vacant seats) in order to be elected; if none of them meet the quota, the lowest-voted candidate gets eliminated and his/her 2nd preferences allocated to the next candidate, etc., until all the constituency seats are filled. Australia uses this to elect its Senate (upper house).

  * e.g.,  ... Political parties are less likely to achieve majorities in legislative assemblies under PR than they would under First-Past-the-Post plurality voting. 

 [ "proportional representation" ]

7: The 1998 Jenkins Commission in the UK also suggested a broadly-PR type of voting system called Alternative Vote Top-Up, a variant of Additional-Member/Mixed-Member where voters number their ballot according to preferences to determine an electorate MP in single-member constituencies (just like Australia's preferential voting for its House of Representatives). The other vote is a party vote, candidates on that list for each county.

  * e.g.,  ... A few political parties crying for PR include the UK's Liberal Democrats and Canada's NDP (New Democratic Party). (And another side note: Even Jello Biafra, when he was trying to become the U.S. Green Party's 2000 presidential candidate, wanted to convert the U.S. Congress from the current two-party FPTP system over to PR as he said in his speech to party faithful that year.) 

 [ "proportional representation" ]

8: A few notes on proportional representation:

 [ "proportional representation" ]

9:  Parties are less likely to gain majorities in legislative assemblies, very likely resulting in coalition governments.

 [ "proportional representation" ]

10:  Third parties, which are often disadvantaged under FPTP (first-past-the-post), often want PR so they can get more seats but not necessarily a majority. Examples being the UK's Liberal Democrats and Canada's NDP.

 [ "proportional representation" ]

11: For more on PR, just type "proportional representation voting" in your favorite search engine.

 [ "of epic proportions" ]

1: word used to desribe somthing.......thats just basically huge or of massive importance.

  * e.g.,  ... sully:uuuuhhhhh,my belly