PROPORTIONALITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

balance; proportion; proportionality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("proportionality" is a kind of...):

arrangement; placement (the spatial property of the way in which something is placed)

Meaning:

A ratio of two quantities that is constant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("proportionality" is a kind of...):

ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "proportionality"):

commensurateness; correspondence; proportionateness (the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount)

Derivation:

proportional (having a constant ratio)