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proportion

English

🔊 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”
🔊 magnitude or extent
“a building of vast proportions”
🔊 the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree
“an inordinate proportion of the book is given over to quotations”
🔊 the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
🔊 balance among the parts of something
🔊 adjust in size relative to other things
🔊 give pleasant proportions to
“harmonize a building with those surrounding it”