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apportionment

noun

Etymology

From apportion + -ment.

  1. derived from ad
  2. derived from apportionare
  3. derived from aporcioner
  4. derived from apportionner
  5. suffixed as apportionment — “apportion + ment”

Definitions

  1. The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.

    • The names of the prayers are given above the tunes, but there is no indication of apportionment of the text to the phrases and notes of the melody.

  2. The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population…

    The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.

  3. The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at apportionment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at apportionment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at apportionment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA