CONSTANT OF PROPORTIONALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does constant of proportionality mean? 

• CONSTANT OF PROPORTIONALITY (noun)
  The noun CONSTANT OF PROPORTIONALITY has 1 sense:

1. the constant value of the ratio of two proportional quantities x and y; usually written y = kx, where k is the factor of proportionality

  Familiarity information: CONSTANT OF PROPORTIONALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSTANT OF PROPORTIONALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The constant value of the ratio of two proportional quantities x and y; usually written y = kx, where k is the factor of proportionality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

constant of proportionality; factor of proportionality

Hypernyms ("constant of proportionality" is a kind of...):

constant (a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context)

factor (any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "constant of proportionality"):

h; Planck's constant (the constant of proportionality relating the energy of a photon to its frequency; approximately 6.626 x 10^-34 joule-second)

 Context examples 

A constant of proportionality that exists between electric displacement and electric field intensity in a vacuum.

(Electric Permittivity of Vacuum, NCI Thesaurus)