Proportion
Proportion noun - A balanced, pleasing, or suitable arrangement of parts.
Units and proportion are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Units" with "Proportion", this nouns are similar.
Units
Proportion and units are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Proportion" instead a noun "Units".
Both words in one sentence
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Units are still numerically smaller, with physically larger soldiers, than reality by a huge proportion, but it's a smaller huge proportion — twenty pikemen who together take up one tile, instead of three pikemen who tower over cities.
Source: Units Not to Scale -
The units also had a higher proportion of submachine guns and light automatic weapons and thus relied more on short-range firepower than in standard German Army infantry units.
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Presumably this is to allow writers to say something is astonishingly big or powerful, without having to make up the measuring units for Subspace Quantum Tachyon Emissions, or using a real value that is completely out of proportion to what would be sensible.
Source: Readings Are Off the Scale
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Units and Proportion. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/proportion/units
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