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
If something is small or large in proportion to something else, it is small or large when compared with that thing. Children tend to have relatively larger heads than adults in proportion to the rest of their body
refers to the relationships of the size of the objects in a body of work Proportion helps with the illusion of perspective in two-dimensional work; e g small size relates to far distance
If you say that something is out of all proportion to something else, you think that it is far greater or more serious than it should be. The punishment was out of all proportion to the crime
The balanced relationship of parts of a building, landscape, and structures to each other and to the whole
Principle of design concerned with the relationship of one object to another with respect to size, amount, number and degree
Two quantities are directly proportional if doubling one of them has the effect of doubling the other On a graph we get a straight line through the origin
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
A proportion is an equality of two quotients (or ratios), usually involving an unknown to be solved Example: 6 : x = 5 : 4 or 6 x = 5 4 Hence: 5x = 24 x = 4 8