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non-proportional: a reinsurance under which the reinsurer`s liability is not proportionate to the insurer`s
Category: Insurance

proportional: a tax that takes constant percentage of any tax base
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

proportional: in a controller with proportional action,the reciprocal of the gain of the controller expressed as a percentage of the measuring span
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

proportional: the maximum stress at which strain remains directly proportional to stress
Category: Technical and industry in general

proportional: the range of applied voltage of a counter tube in which the gas multiplication factor is greater than one and practically independent of the total number of ion pairs initially produced in the sensitive volume as a result of an ionising event,the pulse amplitude being proportional to this number
Category: Standards, measures and testing

proportional: the range of applied voltages over which the charge collected per isolated count is proportional to the charge liberated by the initial ionising event because the gas multiplication factor is greater than unity and independent of the charge liberated by the initial ionising event
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

proportional: a type of continuous action in which the variations of the output variable are proportional to the concomitant variations of the input variable
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

proportional: a control system in which the output signal is linearly related to the input and in which the action to correct an error is made proportional to that error
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

proportional: method of printing in which the amount of horizontal space allocated to each character is dependent on the width of the character
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

proportional: a distributor which divides the flow either in a constant proportion or in variable proportions
Category: Building industry

proportional: an instrument widely used for the detection of alpha particles,neutrons and protons
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

proportional: a method of selecting sample numbers from different strata so that the numbers chosen from the strata are proportional to the population numbers in those strata
Category: Statistics

proportional: in relation to a frequency distribution,the proportional frequency in any class is the frequency of the class divided by the total frequency of the distribution
Category: Statistics

proportional: a meter which measures automatically a proportional part of the volume flowing past a metering point
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

proportional: a semi-module which draws the same percentage of increase or decrease in discharge as a fluctuation of supply in the parent channel bears to its full supply discharge.
Category: Building industry

proportional: the fitting of proportional modules on a supply channel
Category: Building industry

proportionality: one of the particle detector characteristics; when the magnitude of the electrical signal is proportional to the energy loss by the particle in the detector, the counter is said to be proportional in its characteristics
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

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