apportion

(verb)

To divide and distribute portions of a whole.

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Examples of apportion in the following topics:

  • The 16th Amendment

    • The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results.

  • Unequal Sample Sizes

    • This is because the confounded sums of squares are not apportioned to any source of variation.
    • When all confounded sums of squares are apportioned to sources of variation, the sums of squares are called Type I sums of squares.
    • The order in which the confounded sums of squares are apportioned is determined by the order in which the effects are listed.
    • In Type II sums of squares, sums of squares confounded between main effects are not apportioned to any source of variation, whereas sums of squares confounded between main effects and interactions are apportioned to the main effects.
    • Type I sums of squares allow the variance confounded between two main effects to be apportioned to one of the main effects.

  • Budget Resolutions

    • Federal spending is apportioned among 20 functional categories such as national defense, agriculture, and transportation.

  • Selecting Candidates

    • Each party determines its own rules for the format of the convention and how participation is to be apportioned.

  • Electoral Districts

    • The United States Senate, by contrast, is apportioned without regard to population; every state gets exactly two senators.
    • The United States Senate, by contrast, is apportioned without regard to population; every state gets exactly two senators.

  • Poverty and Inequality

    • In any event, it is clear that the American economic system does not apportion its rewards equally.

  • Challenges of Resource-Based Learning

    • In order to create this teaching team, the media specialist and the teacher must apportion responsibility, and ensure that each knows the teaching needs and methods of the other (Farmer, 1999).

  • Depreciation

  • Cross-Training and Job Sharing

    • Compensation is apportioned between the workers, thus leading to a net reduction in per employee income.

  • The Tariff

    • The most recent effort to tax incomes (Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894) had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court because the tax on dividends, interest, and rents was not a direct tax apportioned by population.