proportion
A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
Other meanings
Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
Proper or equal share.
Related words
- disproportionate
- in proportion
- proportional
- proportionally
- proportionate
- proportioner
- blow out of proportion
- compound proportion
- divine proportion
- harmonic proportion
- inverse proportion
- out of all proportion
Word history
From Latin "prōportiō" (comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy).
Where this comes from
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