All 4 Uses of

proportion
in
A Passage to India

It's as if I got everything out of proportion.
Chpt 8 *

out of proportion = not appropriate in size or degree

Your emotions never seem in proportion to their objects, Aziz.
Chpt 27

proportion = appropriate amount

Here, upon a chair too small for him and with a head too large, sat King Kansa, who is Herod, directing the murder of some Innocents, and in a corner, similarly proportioned, stood the father and mother of the Lord, warned to depart in a dream.†
Chpt 33

proportioned = made appropriate in size, amount, or degree

They rise abruptly, insanely, without the proportion that is kept by the wildest hills elsewhere, they bear no relation to anything dreamt or seen.†
Chpt 12 *

Definitions:

(1) (proportion as in: the proportion of females)
relative amount, quantity, or collection
The exact meaning of this sense of proportion is subject to its context. For example:
- "The female proportion is 50%." -- percentage or share
- "The proportion of oil to vinegar." -- ratio (quantity of something relative to the quantity of something else)
- "In the survey, the female proportion said..." -- group
(2) (proportion as in: a problem of large proportion)
size or dimension
(3) (proportion as in: respond in proportion)
appropriate in size, amount, or degree