English-Spanish translations for disproportion

• desproporción
  Esta desproporción demuestra la importancia de la introducción de un sistema de seguimiento unificado. This disproportion shows how important it is to introduce a unified monitoring system.
  Esa desproporción es negativa para la Unión Europea en su conjunto porque fomenta la desigualdad entre los Estados miembros. This disproportion is bad for the European Union as a whole because it creates inequalities between Member States.
  El nuevo Tratado Constitucional constituye un paso adelante para reducir esta desproporción. The new Constitutional Treaty is a step towards reducing this disproportion.

Definition of disproportion

• The state of being out of proportion; an abnormal or improper ratio; an imbalance
• Lack of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness
• To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch

Examples

• the disproportion of the length of a building to its height
• the disproportion of strength or means to an object

Related words

• disproportionate
• disproportionately
• disproportionation
• disproportionateness
• disproportionality