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proportionality
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun proportionality has 2 senses
- proportionality(n = noun.linkdef) Array - a ratio of two quantities that is constant; Array has particulars: commensurateness, correspondence, proportionateness
- proportionality(n = noun.attribute) balance, proportion - 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" is a kind of arrangement, placement
is a kind of ratio
Derived form adjective proportional2
CIDE DICTIONARY
proportionality, n. [Cf. F. proportionnalité.].
The state of being in proportion. Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
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