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"proportion" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often ratio (5 letters).
Definitions
adjust in size relative to other things
Word origin
From Middle English proporcion, from Old French proportion, from Latin prōportiō (“comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy”), from pro (“for, before”) + portio (“share, part”); see portion. By surface analysis, pro- + portion.
Used in a sentence
“Let the women[…]do the same things in their proportions and capacities.”
“the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body”
“The image of Christ made in Pilate's time after his own proportion.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Relative share”10 letters
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