PROPORTIONALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proportionally mean? 

• PROPORTIONALLY (adverb)
  The adverb PROPORTIONALLY has 1 sense:

1. to a proportionate degree

  Familiarity information: PROPORTIONALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROPORTIONALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a proportionate degree

Synonyms:

proportionally; proportionately

Context example:

your salary will rise proportionately to your workload

Pertainym:

proportional (properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by 'to')

 Context examples 

Based on previous Hubble surveys of black holes, astronomers had developed a correlation between a black hole’s mass and the mass of its host galaxy’s central bulge of stars – the larger the galaxy bulge, the proportionally more massive the black hole.

(Behemoth Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place, NASA)