proportion

proportion is a 10-letter English word with 16 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body.
2. noun. Harmonic relation between parts, or between different things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment; symmetry; as, to be out of proportion.
3. noun. The portion one receives when a whole is distributed by a rule or principle; equal or proper share; lot.
4. noun. A part considered comparatively; a share.
5. noun. The equality or similarity of ratios, especially of geometrical ratios; or a relation among quantities such that the quotient of the first divided by the second is equal to that of the third divided by the fourth; -- called also geometrical proportion, in distinction from arithmetical proportion, or that in which the difference of the first and second is equal to the difference of the third and fourth.
6. noun. The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional.
7. verb. To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its height; to proportion our expenditures to our income.
8. verb. To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body.
9. verb. To divide into equal or just shares; to apportion.
10. noun. harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)- John Ruskin

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

    Synonyms: balance, proportionality

11. noun. magnitude or extent

    "a building of vast proportions"

    Synonyms: dimension

12. noun. 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"

    "a dry martini has a large proportion of gin"

    Synonyms: ratio

13. noun. the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
14. noun. balance among the parts of something

    Synonyms: symmetry

15. verb. adjust in size relative to other things
16. verb. give pleasant proportions to

    "harmonize a building with those surrounding it"

Synonyms

balance, proportionality, dimension, ratio, symmetry

Common word forms

proportions, proportional, proportioned, proportioner, proportioning, proportionable, proportionless, proportionment

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