proportion

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Proportion denotes:

Aesthetics:

  • generally particularly "pleasant" size or length ratios for the eye
  • in painting the relationship between body parts and the whole,
  • Proportion (architecture) , the relationship between width, height and depth
  • Proportionality exists between two quantities when they are always in the same relationship to one another


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Wiktionary: Proportion  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: proportion  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations