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Definition of Apportion

Apportion
Apportion Ap*por"tion, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Apportioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Apportioning.] [OF. apportionner, LL. apportionare, fr. L. ad + portio. See Portion.] To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.

Meaning of Apportion from wikipedia

- The legal term apportionment (French: apportionement; Mediaeval Latin: apportionamentum, derived from Latin: portio, share), also called delimitation...
- An apportionment paradox is a situation where an apportionment—a rule for dividing discrete objects according to some proportional relationship—produces...
- United States congressional apportionment is the process by which seats in the United States House of Representatives are distributed among the 50 states...
- to apportionment. The page apportionment by country describes the specific practices used around the world. The page Mathematics of apportionment describes...
- An apportionment is an Office of Management and Budget-approved plan to use budgetary resources (31 U.S.C. §§ 1513–b; Executive Order 11541). It typically...
- mathematics and social choice, apportionment problems are a class of fair division problems where the goal is to divide (apportion) a whole number of identical...
- Apportionment by country describes the practices used in various democratic countries around the world for partitioning seats in the parliament among...
- The Apportionment Act of 1792 (1 Stat. 253) was the first Apportionment Act p****ed by the United States Congress on April 10, 1792, and signed into law...
- Apportionment is a legal term for distribution or allotment in proper shares. Apportionment may also refer to: Niche apportionment models of relative species...
- Biproportional apportionment is a proportional representation method to allocate seats in proportion to two separate characteristics. That is, for two...