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Array and Proportion

noun

  • An orderly arrangement.
    • usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
  • An impressive display.
    • usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
  • Especially fine or decorative clothing.
  • An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

  • Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
    • usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
  • Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.

noun

  • The quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole.
  • Magnitude or extent.
    • usage: "a building of vast proportions"
  • Balance among the parts of something.
  • The relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree.
    • usage: "an inordinate proportion of the book is given over to quotations"; "a dry martini has a large proportion of gin"
  • 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

verb

  • Give pleasant proportions to.
    • usage: "harmonize a building with those surrounding it"
  • Adjust in size relative to other things. .