What are the opposite words for proportionals?

Antonyms for proportionals could include terms such as non-proportional, disproportionate, uneven, unequal, dissimilar, non-corresponding, and inconsistent. In contrast to proportionals, these antonyms would denote a lack of balance or harmony between different elements. Non-proportional could imply that the relationship between two things is not consistent or uniform, while disproportionate might suggest a significant imbalance or unrealistic ratio. Words such as uneven or unequal might imply that one thing is significantly larger or smaller than another, while dissimilar and non-corresponding would suggest that two things are fundamentally different in some way. Conversely, inconsistent might suggest that different parts do not match or follow a predictable pattern.

What are the antonyms for Proportionals?

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Usage examples for Proportionals

Famous quotes with Proportionals

• "While then for a long time everyone was at a loss, Hippocrates of Chios was the first to observe that, if between two straight lines of which the greater is double of the less it were discovered how to find two mean proportionals in continued proportion, the cube would be doubled; and thus he turned the difficulty in the original problem into another difficulty no less than the former. Afterwards, they say, some Delians attempting, in accordance with an oracle, to double one of the altars fell into the same difficulty. And they sent and begged the geometers who were with Plato in the Academy to find for them the required solution. And while they set themselves energetically to work and sought to find two means between two given straight lines, Archytas of Tarentum is said to have discovered them by means of half-cylinders, and Eudoxus by means of the so-called curved lines. It is, however, characteristic of them all that they indeed gave demonstrations, but were unable to make the actual construction or to reach the point of practical application, except to a small extent Menaechmus and that with difficulty."

  Thomas Little Heath
• Hippocrates also attacked the problem of doubling the cube. ...Hippocrates did not, indeed, solve the problem, but he succeeded in reducing it to another, namely, the problem of finding two mean proportionals in continued proportion between two given straight lines, i.e. finding such that , where are the two given straight lines. It is easy to see that, if , then , and, as a particular case, if , so that the side of the cube which is double of the cube of side is found.

  Thomas Little Heath
• The problem of doubling the cube was henceforth tried exclusively in the form of the problem of the two mean proportionals.

  Thomas Little Heath
• Archytas of Tarentum found the two mean proportionals by a very striking construction in three dimensions, which shows that solid geometry, in the hands of Archytas at least, was already well advanced. The construction was usually called mechanical, which it no doubt was in form, though in reality it was in the highest degree theoretical. It consisted in determining a point in space as the intersection of three surfaces: (a) a cylinder, (b) a cone, (c) an "anchor-ring" with internal radius = 0.

  Thomas Little Heath
• Take the case of a famous problem which plays a great part in the history of Greek geometry, the doubling of the cube, or its equivalent, the finding of two mean proportionals in continued proportion between two given straight lines. ...if all the recorded solutions are collected together, it is much easier to see the relations, amounting in some cases to substantial identity, between them, and to get a comprehensive view of the history of the problem. I have therefore dealt with this problem in a separate section of the chapter devoted to 'Special Problems,' and I have followed the same course with the other famous problems of squaring the circle and trisecting any angle.

  Thomas Little Heath

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