Hypertext Webster Gateway: "apportionment"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Apportionment \Ap*por"tion*ment\, n. [Cf. F. apportionnement,
LL. apportionamentum.]
The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or
shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to
each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or
property. --A. Hamilton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
apportionment
n : the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; "the
apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is
based on the relative population of each state" [syn: {allotment},
{apportioning}, {allocation}, {parceling}, {parcelling}]
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