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(verb) adjust in size relative to other things |
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Related Words: adjust, scale down, scale up, set |
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(verb) give pleasant proportions to; "harmonzie a building with those surrounding it" |
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Related Words: harmonize |
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(noun) 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 |
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Synonyms: balance |
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Related Words: arrangement, placement |
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(noun) magnitude or extent; "a building of vast proportions" |
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Synonyms: dimension |
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Related Words: magnitude |
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(noun) the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole |
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Synonyms: proportionality |
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Related Words: batting average, commensurateness, content, correspondence, golden mean, golden section, pct, per centum, percent, percentage, proportionateness, quotient, scale |
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(noun) balance among the parts of something |
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Synonyms: symmetry |
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Related Words: balance, counterbalance, equilibrium, equipoise |
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Antonyms: disproportion |
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