PROPORTIONALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proportionality mean? 

• PROPORTIONALITY (noun)
  The noun PROPORTIONALITY has 2 senses:

1. a ratio of two quantities that is constant

2. harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)

  Familiarity information: PROPORTIONALITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROPORTIONALITY (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

balance; proportion; proportionality

Context example:

in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance

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

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

 Context examples 

A constant of proportionality that exists between electric displacement and electric field intensity in a vacuum.

(Electric Permittivity of Vacuum, NCI Thesaurus)