English

Noun

1. Plural of proportion
   • 1953, (translation), Modulor

     It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy.

     • 1946, Albert Einstein, letter sent to Le Corbusier, on the golden ratio

       Er ist eine Skala der Proportionen, die das Schlechte schwierig und das Gute leicht macht.

2. A person's figure.

Verb

1. third-person singular of proportion

• Proportionality (mathematics), the special mathematical relationships of direct and inverse proportion between two variables
• Proportionality (physics)
• Proportionality (law), a legal principle under municipal law in which the punishment of a certain crime should be in proportion to the severity of the crime itself, and under international law an important consideration when assessing the military necessity of an attack on a military objective
• Proportionality (political maxim), a maxim which states that any layer of government should not take any action that exceeds that which is necessary to achieve the objective of government

• Proportion (architecture) describes the relationships between elements of a design
• Body proportions, in art, are the study of relation of human body parts to each other and the whole
• Proportions, or geometric aspect ratio

• Proportional (fair division) means that each of n players thinks that they received 1/n of the cake.
• A proportional control system is a type of linear feedback control system
• Proportional representation in electoral systems
• Proportional fonts