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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a ratio of two quantities that is constant;

2. 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"- John Ruskin
[syn: proportion, proportionality, balance]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Proportionality \Pro*por`tion*al"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. proportionnalit['e].] The state of being in proportion. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

proportionality n 1: a ratio of two quantities that is constant 2: 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 [syn: proportion, proportionality, balance]