"proportion" means how much of one ingredient as compared to other ingredients.
For instance the proportion of fat to flour in shortcrust pastry is twice the amount of flour to the amount of fat used.
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It could be undefined if you do not know the original number of which the "proportion" was meant to be out of.
The law of constant proportion states that a pure chemical compound always contains exactly the same proportion of elements by mass.This information, together with the atomic masses of the elements in the compound enable scientists to determine the formula of a compound.
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a proportion that is open
Inverse is the opposite of proportion