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Asymmetric

Asymmetric \As`ym*met"ric\, Asymmetrical \As`ym*met"ri*cal\, a.

  1. Incommensurable. [Obs.]

  2. Not symmetrical; wanting proportion; esp., not bilaterally symmetrical.
    --Huxley.

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asymmetric

a. 1 (context geometry general English) Of a shape, not symmetric. 2 (context cryptography English) Not involving a mutual exchange of keys between the sender and receiver.

WordNet
asymmetric

adj. characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components [syn: asymmetrical] [ant: symmetrical]

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Usage examples of "asymmetric".

Signor Mantissa gazed at her, at the asymmetric eyes, tilt of the frail head, streaming gold hair.

That is, although the chick brain, like the mammalian brain, is bilaterally symmetrical, being composed of two apparently identical hemispheres, the effects of training are asymmetric - when it comes to learning, chicks are left-hemisphere creatures.

But as little as a single deletion near one end of the asymmetric gene can totally destroy the enzymatic function the gene codes for.

Over the white sarcophagi in the tunnellike embryonator, through the armored glass of the periscope, shone Alpha Harpyiae, a blue giant that had been deflected from the stars of the constellation by one of its own asymmetric eruptions, as it was young and not yet stabilized after the nuclear ignition of its interior.

You know how alike the asymmetric crystalline structures of a chromosome are to those of the DNA molecule, one of the constituents of the cerebrosides which constitute the substratum of the memory-processes?

The Red Moon was hemispherically asymmetric, then: like Mars and Luna, unlike Earth and Venus.

The buildings were cones, columns and domes, clustered together like an asymmetric jelly mold.

Breathlessly she described the strange, asymmetric structure taking shape in the workshop, while my mind was busy with Ewells Corps and Parrott guns and the weather chart of southern Pennsylvania for July 1863.