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PROPORTIONALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
Example:
in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance
Synonyms:
balance; proportion; proportionality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("proportionality" is a kind of...):
arrangement; placement (the spatial property of the way in which something is placed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A ratio of two quantities that is constant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("proportionality" is a kind of...):
ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "proportionality"):
commensurateness; correspondence; proportionateness (the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount)
Derivation:
proportional (having a constant ratio)
