Proportion and Total

Proportion

Proportion noun - A balanced, pleasing, or suitable arrangement of parts.

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Total and proportion are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Total" instead a noun "Proportion".

Total noun - A complete amount of something.

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Proportion and total are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Proportion" instead a noun "Total".

Nearby Words: totaled, tot, totality, totaling, totalled

good	good proportion	good total
high	high proportion	high total
low	low proportion	low total
exact	exact proportion	exact total
Other adjectives: considerable, correct, small, actual, massive, large, impressive, lower, ridiculous, highest, worst, higher, largest.

The proportion of Stock Dinosaurs in the movies is much larger than that of the two novels (and the total number of genera is far smaller, see further).

Source: Stock Dinosaurs
Before anyone gets too worried about the implications, they actually received fewer votes than the previous election, but lower turnout, in part due to an ongoing political scandal affecting the main parties more than hard-line BNP supporters, meant they received a higher proportion of the total.

Source: Useful Notes / British Political System
Proportion of convictions to total instances of cannibalism unknown.

Source: The Siege

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