比例

Etymology
Original sense attestable in Classical Chinese. The mathematics sense is believed to have been coined by.

Noun

 * 1)  ratio; proportion
 * 2) proportion; percentage; share
 * 3)  scale
 * 1) proportion; percentage; share
 * 2)  scale

Noun

 * 1) proportion, ratio

Derived terms

 * 比例区 (hireiku): proportionally represented constituency
 * 比例式 (hireishiki): proportional expression
 * 比例税 (hireizei): proportional tax
 * 比例中項 (hirei chūkō): mean proportional
 * 比例配分 (hirei haibun): proportional distribution
 * 比例代表制 (hirei daihyō sei): proportional representation
 * 名簿式比例代表制 (meibo-shiki hirei daihyō sei): proportional representation system in which votes are cast for a publicly available list of party members
 * 拘束名簿式比例代表制 (kōsoku meibo-shiki hirei daihyō sei): proportional representation electoral system
 * 非拘束名簿式比例代表制 (hi-kōsoku meibo-shiki hirei daihyō sei): proportional representation system in which both party and individual votes are cast
 * 小選挙区比例代表並立制 (shō-senkyoku hirei daihyō heiritsu sei): electoral system composed of single-seat and multiple-seat constituencies
 * 逆比例 (gyakuhirei): inverse proportion to
 * 正比例 (seihirei): direct proportion
 * 単比例 (tanpirei): simple proportion
 * 定比例 (teihirei): fixed proportion
 * 反比例 (hanpirei): inverse proportion
 * 複比例 (fukuhirei): compound proportion
 * 定比例の法則 (teihirei no hōsoku): law of definite proportions
 * 倍数比例の法則 (baisū hirei no hōsoku): law of multiple proportions

Verb

 * 1) be proportional, be in proportion

Usage notes
Often this verb is used in the past tense, 比例した, to mean "" or "", or in the -te form 比例して to mean "." As such it expresses concepts with a verb that are usually expressed with other parts of speech in English.