Associations to the word «Proportionality»

Wiktionary

PROPORTIONALITY, noun. (uncountable) the property of being proportional
PROPORTIONALITY, noun. (uncountable) the principle that government action ought to be proportional to the ends achieved (e.g. the military should not be deployed to stop petty vandalism)
PROPORTIONALITY, noun. (countable) the degree to which something is in proportion

Dictionary definition

PROPORTIONALITY, noun. A ratio of two quantities that is constant.
PROPORTIONALITY, noun. 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.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope