proportionality

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proportionality - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Proportionality \Pro*por`tion*al"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F.
     proportionnalit['e].]
     The state of being in proportion. --Coleridge.
     [1913 Webster]

proportionality - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  proportionality
      n 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); "in all perfectly beautiful
         objects there is found the opposition of one part to another
         and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin [syn: proportion,
         proportionality, balance]