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Defenition of the word proportion

    • Defenition of the word proportion

      • An equation showing that two ratios are equal.
      • A principle of design that refers to the relative size of the parts of a work of art.
      • To adjust in size so as to establish a correct relationship with other things.
      • adjust in size relative to other things
      • give pleasant proportions to; "harmonzie a building with those surrounding it"
      • harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design): "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin
      • magnitude or extent; "a building of vast proportions"
      • the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
      • balance among the parts of something
      • harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin
      • give pleasant proportions to; "harmonize a building with those surrounding it"
      • harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
      • magnitude or extent
      • the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree
      • give pleasant proportions to

    Synonyms for the word proportion

      • amount
      • balance
      • comparison
      • dimension
      • fraction
      • part
      • percentage
      • proportionality
      • quantity
      • ratio
      • relationship
      • relative amount
      • section
      • share
      • symmetry

    Similar words in the proportion

      • proportion
      • proportion's
      • proportionality
      • proportionality's
      • proportionally
      • proportionals
      • proportionate
      • proportionately
      • proportioned
      • proportioning

    Meronymys for the word proportion

      • proportional

    Hyponyms for the word proportion

      • batting average
      • case-fatality proportion
      • case-to-infection proportion
      • case-to-infection ratio
      • commensurateness
      • content
      • correspondence
      • golden mean
      • golden section
      • pct
      • per centum
      • percent
      • percentage
      • proportionateness
      • rate
      • scale
      • scale down
      • scale up

    Hypernyms for the word proportion

      • adjust
      • arrangement
      • balance
      • correct
      • counterbalance
      • equilibrium
      • equipoise
      • harmonise
      • harmonize
      • magnitude
      • magnitude relation
      • placement
      • quantitative relation
      • quotient
      • set

    Antonyms for the word proportion

      • disproportion

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