1 a part or share of something larger: --
They serve children’s portions at half-price.
She read large portions of the manuscript and offered many useful suggestions.
3 the amount of a particular food that is enough for one person, especially in a restaurant, etc.: --
Examples (16a, b) represent the final four words of much longer utterances with a prenuclear accents on the portions not shown here.
Surely they don't mean to suggest that the three persons share a common stuff or matter, or that their three portions of matter overlap.
As to diet, the number of portions of fruit and vegetables eaten each day was monitored as participants progressed through the intervention.
Each muscle consists of contractile and non-contractile portions.
Measurements of local minima and maxima were made for the portions of the pitchtrack excluding these.
Their inner portions were only to be structured as actual need arose.
Where parents had died, other kin were usually called upon to act as guardians and executors in the paying out of inheritance portions.
Near the highly crystallized peripheral portions of the chambers, represented by magmatic xenoliths (fergusites, syenites and pyroxenites), skarn aureoles form.
