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Proportion   /prəpˈɔrʃən/   Listen
Proportion

noun
1.
The quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole.
2.
Magnitude or extent.  Synonym: dimension.
3.
Balance among the parts of something.  Synonym: symmetry.
4.
The relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree.  Synonym: ratio.  "A dry martini has a large proportion of gin"
5.
Harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design).  Synonyms: balance, proportionality.
verb
(past & past part. proportioned; pres. part. proportioning)
1.
Give pleasant proportions to.
2.
Adjust in size relative to other things.



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"Proportion" Quotes from Famous Books



... ever knew, there was more of scrutiny in my glance than usual, and I felt a deeper interest in her than mere beauty could have awakened. She was, perhaps, rather below than above the middle size; but formed in such admirable proportion, that it seemed out of place to think of size in reference to her at all. Who, in looking at the Venus de Medicis, asks whether she be tall or short? The bust and neck were so exquisitely moulded, that they reminded me of Burke's fanciful remark, viz., that our ideas of beauty originate ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 - Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative • Alexander Leighton
... was far from satisfied, and his desire to have a chance at England waxing in proportion as the Colonies' fortunes waned, he at last determined to brave his fierce old father and join the struggling American army whether his sire willed it or no. His mind once formed, he would have been no true son of ...
— The Colonel of the Red Huzzars • John Reed Scott
... modern writers who speak of virtue as fitness, and of freedom as obedience to law. The mathematical or logical notion of limit easily passes into an ethical one, and even finds a mythological expression in the conception of envy (Greek). Ideas of measure, equality, order, unity, proportion, still linger in the writings of moralists; and the true spirit of the fine arts is better conveyed by ...
— The Republic • Plato
... are made the key is depressed and the galvanometer observed. The resistance is changed until no action of the galvanometer is produced by closing the circuit when the ratio of the resistances of the arms gives the proportion for calculating the ...
— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone
... thought of these things; it was so curious that all this should be heaped upon him at once, so inartistic and yet so like life, in which the great events are frequently crowded together without sense of distance or proportion. ...
— The People Of The Mist • H. Rider Haggard


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