Meaning of ASYMMETRY
| Pronunciation: | | ey'simitree
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| | Definition: | | [n] (mathematics) a lack of symmetry |
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| | Synonyms: | | imbalance |
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| | Antonyms: | | balance, correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry | | |
| | See Also: | | eyedness, footedness, geometrical irregularity, handedness, irregularity, laterality, lopsidedness, radial asymmetry, skewness, spatial property, spatiality | |
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| | Definition: | | \A*sym"me*try\, n. [Gr. ?; 'a priv. + ? symmetry.]
1. Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a
thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.
2. (Math.) Incommensurability. [Obs.] --Barrow.
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| | Related Terms: | | ambiguity, ambivalence, anamorphism, anamorphosis, antinomy, buckle, contortion, contrariety, crookedness, detorsion, deviation, difference, disequilibrium, disparity, disproportion, disproportionateness, distortion, equivocality, gnarl, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, imbalance, inadequacy, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inequity, injustice, insufficiency, irreconcilability, irregularity, knot, lopsidedness, nonconformability, nonconformity, nonuniformity, odds, overbalance, oxymoron, paradox, quirk, screw, self-contradiction, shortcoming, torsion, tortuosity, turn, twist, unbalance, unconformability, unconformity, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unorthodoxy, unsymmetry, warp, wrench, wrest, wring |
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