Definition of "disproportion"

disproportion

/dɪspɹəˈpɔːʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural disproportions
1. The state of being out of proportion; an abnormal or improper ratio; an imbalance.
  Quotations
  […] a handsome creature, remarkably so, with features so symmetrical […] that a micrometer gauge could scarcely find a disproportion in her smooth and broad mahogany-coloured face.
  1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia‎, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 208
2. Lack of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness.
verb
third-person singular simple present disproportions, present participle disproportioning, simple past and past participle disproportioned
1. (transitive) To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch.
  Quotations
  To shape my legs of an unequal size; / To disproportion me in every part.
  c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
  a degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory
  1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell