apportionment Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
    allocation; parceling; apportioning; allotment; parcelling; assignation.
    • the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state

WordNet

Ap*por"tion*ment noun
Etymology
Cf. F. apportionnement, LL. apportionamentum.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913