Meaning of "disproportionate" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF DISPROPORTIONATE

disproportionate  [ˌdɪsprəˈpɔːʃənɪt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISPROPORTIONATE

Disproportionate is a verb and can also act as an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb disproportionate in English.

WHAT DOES DISPROPORTIONATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Disproportionation

Disproportionation is a specific type of redox reaction in which a species is simultaneously reduced and oxidized to form two different products. For example: the UV photolysis of mercury chloride Hg2Cl2 → Hg + HgCl2 is a disproportionation. Mercury is a diatomic dication Hg2+ 2. In this reaction the chemical bond in the molecular ion is broken and one mercury atom is reduced to mercury and the other is oxidized to mercury. A similar type of reaction, but in which no element changes oxidation number, is the acid-base disproportionation reaction observed when an amphiprotic species reacts with itself. Two common examples for conjugated bases of polyprotic acids such as bicarbonate and dihydrogenophosphate are respectively: 2 HCO− 3 → CO2− 3 + H2CO3 2 H 2PO− 4 → HPO2− 4 + H3PO4 . This is also called autoionization. Another variant on disproportionation is radical disproportionation, in which two radicals form an alkane and alkene.

Definition of disproportionate in the English dictionary

The definition of disproportionate in the dictionary is out of proportion; unequal. Other definition of disproportionate is to undergo or cause to undergo disproportionation.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DISPROPORTIONATE

PRESENT

Present

I disproportionate

you disproportionate

he/she/it disproportionates

we disproportionate

you disproportionate

they disproportionate

Present continuous

I am disproportionating

you are disproportionating

he/she/it is disproportionating

we are disproportionating

you are disproportionating

they are disproportionating

Present perfect

I have disproportionated

you have disproportionated

he/she/it has disproportionated

we have disproportionated

you have disproportionated

they have disproportionated

Present perfect continuous

I have been disproportionating

you have been disproportionating

he/she/it has been disproportionating

we have been disproportionating

you have been disproportionating

they have been disproportionating

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I disproportionated

you disproportionated

he/she/it disproportionated

we disproportionated

you disproportionated

they disproportionated

Past continuous

I was disproportionating

you were disproportionating

he/she/it was disproportionating

we were disproportionating

you were disproportionating

they were disproportionating

Past perfect

I had disproportionated

you had disproportionated

he/she/it had disproportionated

we had disproportionated

you had disproportionated

they had disproportionated

Past perfect continuous

I had been disproportionating

you had been disproportionating

he/she/it had been disproportionating

we had been disproportionating

you had been disproportionating

they had been disproportionating

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will disproportionate

you will disproportionate

he/she/it will disproportionate

we will disproportionate

you will disproportionate

they will disproportionate

Future continuous

I will be disproportionating

you will be disproportionating

he/she/it will be disproportionating

we will be disproportionating

you will be disproportionating

they will be disproportionating

Future perfect

I will have disproportionated

you will have disproportionated

he/she/it will have disproportionated

we will have disproportionated

you will have disproportionated

they will have disproportionated

Future perfect continuous

I will have been disproportionating

you will have been disproportionating

he/she/it will have been disproportionating

we will have been disproportionating

you will have been disproportionating

they will have been disproportionating

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would disproportionate

you would disproportionate

he/she/it would disproportionate

we would disproportionate

you would disproportionate

they would disproportionate

Conditional continuous

I would be disproportionating

you would be disproportionating

he/she/it would be disproportionating

we would be disproportionating

you would be disproportionating

they would be disproportionating

Conditional perfect

I would have disproportionate

you would have disproportionate

he/she/it would have disproportionate

we would have disproportionate

you would have disproportionate

they would have disproportionate

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been disproportionating

you would have been disproportionating

he/she/it would have been disproportionating

we would have been disproportionating

you would have been disproportionating

they would have been disproportionating

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you disproportionate
we let´s disproportionate
you disproportionate

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to disproportionate

Past participle

disproportionated

Present Participle

disproportionating

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «DISPROPORTIONATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «disproportionate» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of disproportionate

excessive · incommensurate · inordinate · unbalanced · unequal · uneven · unreasonable

TRANSLATION OF DISPROPORTIONATE

Find out the translation of disproportionate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of disproportionate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «disproportionate» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 不成比例的
• Translator English - Spanish: desproporcionado
• English: disproportionate
• Translator English - Hindi: आय से अधिक
• Translator English - Arabic: غير متناسب
• Translator English - Russian: несоразмерным
• Translator English - Portuguese: desproporcionado
• Translator English - Bengali: অনুপাতহীন
• Translator English - French: disproportionné
• Translator English - Malay: Tidak seimbang
• Translator English - German: unverhältnismäßig
• Translator English - Japanese: 不釣合いな
• Translator English - Korean: 균형이 맞지 않는
• Translator English - Javanese: Disproportionate
• Translator English - Vietnamese: không cân xứng
• Translator English - Tamil: சமமற்ற
• Translator English - Marathi: असंतुलित
• Translator English - Turkish: oransız
• Translator English - Italian: sproporzionato
• Translator English - Polish: nieproporcjonalne
• Translator English - Ukrainian: несумірним
• Translator English - Romanian: disproporționat
• Translator English - Greek: δυσανάλογη
• Translator English - Afrikaans: oneweredige
• Translator English - Swedish: oproportionerlig
• Translator English - Norwegian: uforholdsmessig

10 QUOTES WITH «DISPROPORTIONATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word disproportionate.

1

William Allingham

I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

2

Joseph Butler

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

3

Robert Casey

I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.

4

Tina Fey

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

5

Barney Frank

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

6

William Hague

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

7

Sara Harrison

The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.

8

Daniel Kahneman

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

9

Travis Kalanick

I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.

10

Daniel Dae Kim

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISPROPORTIONATE»

Discover the use of disproportionate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to disproportionate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

TennCare and Disproportionate Share Hospitals

Dr. Ogbonna provides a template for dealing with policy, managerial, and administrative issues of rising healthcare costs in Tennessee and the nation in general.

Chinyere Ogbonna, 2007

Disproportionate Confinement of African-American Juvenile ...

Annotation Mooradian (social work, Michigan State U.) investigates the factors impacting out-of- home placement measures among African-Americans caught up in juvenile justice system.

John K. Mooradian, 2003

Medicare's Disproportionate Share Adjustment for Hospitals

percent of total disproportionate share payments, although they will account for less than 50 percent of all PPS payments. Urban hospitals in smaller metropolitan areas will account for roughly the same proportions of cases, total payments, ...

‎1990

An Investigation of Practices to Address the ...

There were two overarching research focus questions as well as six corresponding sub-questions investigated in this study. This study included 111 directors of special education who represent each of the eight regional study groups.

Stacia M. Barreau, 2008

Asking for trouble: the story of an escapade with ...

A memoir of when the author was expelled from her convent school in 1950s Belfast.

Patricia Craig, 2007

S Corporation Answer Book, Seventh Edition

Thus, the disproportionate payment of dividends will not be deemed to create a second class of stock, unless they are required by governing provisions. Even if they are not so required, disproportionate payment of dividends may cause other  ...

Sydney S. Traum, Judith Rood Traum, 2008

Corporate Taxation: Examples and Explanations

Disproportionate. Contributions. and. Other. Variations. Ordinarily, stock received by contributing shareholders is proportionate to the value of property contributed. Thus, if shareholders A and B each contribute 50% of the total value to ...

Cheryl D. Block, 2004

Illinois Disproportionate Justice Impact Study (DJIS) ...

Public. hearings. As part of its information-gathering and -sharing efforts, the Illinois DJIS Commission held a series of public hearings throughout the state . At these hearings, Commission members had the opportunity to hear the opinions and ...

Arthur Lurigio (au)

Disproportionate Devastation: Intersections of Gender, ...

Roxane Richter. In studying survivors of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, Stuber et al. (2006) reported that women were nearly twice as likely as men to have peri-event panic (time period surrounding event), but that the early ...

Roxane Richter, 2007

Tubular Structures XI: 11th International Symposium and IIW ...

The requirement for sufficient tying force resistance is to safeguard the structure against disproportionate collapse. To enable this calculation, it is necessary to have information on the strength and stiffness of the beam-column connections ...

Jeffrey A. Packer, Silke Willibald, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISPROPORTIONATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term disproportionate is used in the context of the following news items.

A rejuvenated China? Stock market crash punches a hole in Xi's …

... director at Gavekal Dragonomics in Beijing, said the scale of the government's response was disproportionate to the scale of the problem. «Washington Post, Jul 15»

Elected prosecutors in Oklahoma lack diversity, mirror a national trend

But the disproportionate representation of arrested black males isn't an issue exclusive to Tulsa or Oklahoma, Williams said. Rather, it's a ... «Tulsa World, Jul 15»

CWCI: Southland Generating Disproportionate Number of IMR …

Los Angeles County has once again lived up to its reputation as a litigation vortex for California's workers' compensation system. According to a ... «WorkCompCentral, Jul 15»

Minority, Low-Income Communities Bear Disproportionate Share Of …

People of color and low-income communities are bearing a disproportionate burden of risk from dangerous oil trains rolling through California, ... «De Smog Blog, Jul 15»

Disproportionate number of older people hospitalized in Canada …

A disproportionate number of people hospitalized in Canada with traumatic brain injuries are 65 years or older, a new study from St. Michael's ... «News-Medical.net, Jul 15»

"Disproportionate" rate of aircraft near-collisions at Australia's …

SYDNEY, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The Australian authorities are investigating a "disproportionate" rate of aircraft near- collisions at Australia's second ... «Shanghai Daily, Jul 15»

Disproportionate assets case against RCD engineer

PATNA: Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) has registered a disproportionate assets (DA) case against the assistant engineer of road construction ... «Times of India, Jul 15»

Lawyers for alleged 'child porn facilitator' say extradition would be …

Furthermore, his extradition would be entirely disproportionate, Mr O'Higgins said. In Ireland, the alleged offences did not amount to a crime so ... «Irish Examiner, Jun 15»

Windfall that is disproportionate

DR Ken Brown (Letters, June 26), asks why Fergus Ewing has gone back on his claim that "the SNP believe that many other forms of ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»

VACB submits report on arrest of ADM

The agency will also make a plea for a comprehensive investigation into the suspected disproportionate assets amassed by the ADM. «The Hindu, Jun 15»