proportion

1. (verb) adjust in size relative to other things
Related Words: adjust, scale down, scale up, set

2. (verb) give pleasant proportions to; "harmonzie a building with those surrounding it"
Related Words: harmonize

3. (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
Synonyms: balance
Related Words: arrangement, placement

4. (noun) magnitude or extent; "a building of vast proportions"
Synonyms: dimension
Related Words: magnitude

5. (noun) the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
Synonyms: proportionality
Related Words: batting average, commensurateness, content, correspondence, golden mean, golden section, pct, per centum, percent, percentage, proportionateness, quotient, scale

6. (noun) balance among the parts of something
Synonyms: symmetry
Related Words: balance, counterbalance, equilibrium, equipoise
Antonyms: disproportion



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