proportioning
- 1Present participle and gerund of proportion.
The engineer spent the morning proportioning the load across the bridge supports.
Proportioning the budget among the departments required several rounds of negotiation.
Note
One spelling does two grammatical jobs. After be it is the progressive verb (they were proportioning the costs). Standing alone it is a verbal noun (careful proportioning pays off). In both uses the verb behind it is transitive, so something is always being proportioned: shares among people, or parts set in harmony with a whole. Its archaic meaning, 'corresponding to', is the reading to avoid in modern prose.
proportioning is a form of proportion
proportion, verb: To divide and distribute something in proper shares; to apportion. Full entry
- Forms
- proportionproportions he/she/itproportioning -ing formproportioned past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- proportion → proportioning: add -ing
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