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golden section

golden section

 
pronunciation:
gol dn sek shn
part of speech: noun
definition: in mathematics and the fine arts, a relationship between two dimensions of a plane figure, or two segments of a line, such that the ratio of the smaller to the larger is the same as that of the larger to the sum of the two, or about .62 to 1.00.