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Symmetry may refer to: In science and mathematics : Symmetry (physics) , a physical or mathematical feature of the system (observed or intrinsic) that is "preserved" under some change Symmetry in biology , the balanced distribution of duplicate body parts ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE perfect ▪ The specimen is preserved in its original calcite; its lack of distortion may be seen from its perfect five-fold symmetry . ▪ Her rib cage has perfect symmetry . ▪ Their complete accord with singer and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis. 2 (context uncountable English) The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.
Usage examples of symmetry.
But whatever may be the phases of the arts, there is the abiding principle of symmetry in the body of man, that goes erect, like an upright soul.
Einstein significantly extended this symmetry by showing that the laws of physics are actually identical for all observers, even if they are undergoing complicated accelerated motion.
The confirmation of that truth becomes irresistible when we see how reason and conscience, with delighted avidity, seize upon its adaptedness alike to the brightest features and the darkest defects of the present life, whose imperfect symmetries and segments are harmoniously filled out by the adjusting complement of a future state.
What geometrician or arithmetician could fail to take pleasure in the symmetries, correspondences and principles of order observed in visible things?
This axiom evidently expresses the symmetry of perpendicularity, and is the essence of the famous pons asinorum expressed as an axiom.
It is however necessary for time as a supplement to the axiom of kinetic symmetry.
Taking the globe as a whole, we see that bilateral symmetry is preserved.
The flatworm is the simplest living multicellular animal to have bilateral symmetry, and its primeval ancestors must have been the first to develop this.
This grand division of living creatures into those with bilateral symmetry and those without is of vital importance.
A creature with bilateral symmetry is usually longest in the direction of the plane of symmetry and tends to progress along that plane.
The fact that we have two eyes is part of our bilateral symmetry, as is the fact that we have two ears, two arms, and two legs.
Radial rather than bilateral symmetry would eliminate the left-hemisphere-right-hemi-sphere separation of the higher creatures on Earth.
It may sound simplistic when you break it down to its basics, but there is a symmetry and tradition to bocce that makes it fascinating.
This coincident symmetry did not astonish the lone brown eye that watched from above.
As to the ordinary and commonplace explanation, it may be added, that the wisdom of the Architect is displayed in combining, as only a skillful Architect can do, and as God has done everywhere,--for example, in the tree, the human frame, the egg, the cells of the honeycomb--strength, with grace, beauty, symmetry, proportion, lightness, ornamentation.