propodia

Plural of pro podium. pro podial (pro-pō'di-al), a. and n. [ II. n. Same as pro podium . Limbs consisting of one basal element, two propodials , and met apo dials and digits. Amer. Nat., ΧΧΙΙΙ. 852. pro podial i a (pro-po-di-ali-ä), n. pl. [NL., pro podite (prop'o-dit), n. [ pro poditic (prop-o-dit a. [ pro podium (prō-põʻdi-um), n.; pl. propodia (-a). 4780 and proponed to his charge. proponent (pro-po'nent), a . and n. [= Sp. Pg. It. proponente , proponen (t-) s , ppr. of pro- ponere, set forth, place before: see propone .] I. a . Making proposals; proposing. For mysterious things of faith rely On the proponent Heaven's authority. pontic ulus. proportt, v . t . An obsolete form of purport . proportion (pro-por's hon), n . [ cion , proporcioun , proportion , prop or cion , F. proportion = Sp. prop or cion = Pg. prop orção = It . proporzione , proportio ( n- ), compara- tive relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy, pro , for, before, + portio ( n- ), share, part: see portion .] 1. The relation of one thing to an- other in respect to size, quantity, magnitude of corresponding parts, capacity, or degree. He must be little skilled in the world who thinks that men's talking much or little shall hold proportion only to their knowledge. Locke . IMG:content-1108.png:[blocks in formation] Justice can be well administered only in proportion as men become just. H. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 289. 2. Specifically, the relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude; the relative size and arrangement of parts: as, the proportion of the parts of an edifice, or of the human body. Commonly in the plural. The system of definite proportion which the Greeks employed in the design of their temples was another cause of the effect they produce even on uneducated minds. J. Fergu on, Hist. Arch., I. 251. The three vast rece es [of the façade of Peter borough Cathedral: see cut under portal ] have not, as they have at Lincoln, any correspondence with the proportions of the nave and aisles which they terminate. Being of equal height, and the narrow one being in front of the wide central aisle while the wide ones fall in front of the narrow side aisles, they wholly contradict these proportions . Moore , Gothic Architecture, p. 165. 3. Symmetrical arrangement, distribution, or adjustment; the proper relation of parts in a whole; symmetry or harmony. Hee commeth to you with words sent in delight full pro in chaunting skill before, + ποὺς ( ποδ- ) = E. foot.] The anterior one of the three median parts into which the foot of some mollusks may be divided: correlated with me so podium and meta podium. Also pro podial. Compare epipodium. propodos (prop'ō-dos), n. Same as pro podite. propolis (prop'ō-lis), n. [L. propolis, Speaking of the honey-bee reminds me that the subtle and sleight-of-hand manner in which it fills its baskets with pollen and propolis is characteristic of much of nature's doings. The Century , XXV. 678. 51. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, II. 1. I have received my proportion , like the prodigious son. Shak ., T. G. of V., ii. 3. 3. Form; shape; figure. I thought King Henry had resembled thee In courage, courtship, and proportion. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 3. 57. proportionable Look; here 's a face now of another making, Another mould; here 's a divine proportion . Fletcher ( and another ?), Prophete , iii. 3. The people... [are] generally tall and straight, of a comely proportion . Capt . John Smith , Works, I. 129. 6. In math ., the equality of ratios or relations; analogy. Complicated and difficult definitions of this word were given by Euclid and the old mathematicians, because they were unwilling to regard a ratio as a quantity capable of equality; but it is now recognized that such generalizations are at once the most profound and the most intelligible way throughout mathematics. When he hadde founde his firste mansioun [in astrology], He knew the remenaunt by proporcioun . Chaucer , Franklin's Tale, 1. 558. 7. In music: ( a ) The ratio between the vibration-numbers of two tones. (b) Same as rhythm or meter.-8. In arith., the rule of three; that rule which, according to the theory of proportion, enables us to find a fourth proportional to three given numbers-that is, a number to which the third bears the same ratio as the first does to the second. - Academic proportions. See figure of academic proportions, underdeler nate proportion. alternate. Combining proportions. Same as definite proportions. - Composition of proportion. See composition. - Compound proportion, the equality of the ratio of two quantities to another ratio, the antecedent and consequent of which are respectively the products of the antecedents, and consequents of two or more ratios. - Continued proportion, a succe ion of several equal ratios the consequent of each of which is identical with the antecedent of that which follows, as 8:12 12:18 18:27, etc. - Contra-arithmetical pro portion, contra harmonical mean and proportion, definite proportions. See the adjectives. - Conversion of proportions. See conversion. - Direct proportion. See direct ratio, under ratio. - Discrete proportion. See discrete, 2.- Duplicate, geometrical, harmonic, in proportion. Same as Gunter's line ( a ) (which see, under ordinate proportion. the adjectives. - Gunter's line2). - Inverse proportion. See reciprocal proportion. - Law of multiple proportion. See multiple. - Mixed mixed1.- Musical tatio or proportion. Somites i propr verse proportion, an equality between a direct and a reciprocal ratio, or a proportion in which two of the quan tities are taken inversely: thus, the ratio of 4 to 2 is that of 3 to 6 taken inversely, or 4:2=-Simple proportion, the equality of the ratio of two quantities to that of two other quantities. = Syn. 3. See symmetry.