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Asymmetry

Asymmetry \A*sym"me*try\, n. [Gr. ?; 'a priv. + ? symmetry.]

  1. Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. lack of bilateral symmetry.

  2. (Math.) Incommensurability. [Obs.]
    --Barrow.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
asymmetry

1650s, "want of symmetry or proportion," from Greek asymmetria, noun of quality from asymmetros "having no common measure; disproportionate, unsymmetrical," from a- "not" + symmetros "commensurable" (see symmetry).

Wiktionary
asymmetry

n. 1 Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, especially want of bilateral symmetry. 2 Lacking a common measure between two objects or quantities; incommensurability. 3 That which causes something to not be symmetrical.

WordNet
asymmetry

n. (mathematics) a lack of symmetry [syn: imbalance] [ant: symmetry]

Wikipedia
Asymmetry

Asymmetry is the absence of, or a violation of, symmetry (the property of an object being invariant to a transformation, such as reflection). Symmetry is an important property of both physical and abstract systems and it may be displayed in precise terms or in more aesthetic terms. The absence of violation of symmetry that are either expected or desired can have important consequences for a system.

Asymmetry (Karnivool album)

Asymmetry is the third studio album by Australian progressive rock band Karnivool. It is their first release in over four years, since Sound Awake (2009). It was released on 19 July 2013. The album's first single, "We Are", was released, along with an accompanying music video, released on 14 June 2013.

Asymmetry (Mallory Knox album)

Asymmetry is the second album by British rock band Mallory Knox. It was released on 27 October 2014 via Search and Destroy and Epic Records and was produced by Gil Norton. It is the band's first release after departing from A Wolf At Your Door Records.

Asymmetry charted at no. 16 in the UK album charts in the first week of sales. Like their debut album, it was released to very high positive reviews from music critics.

Usage examples of "asymmetry".

From this Broca - and after him many others - developed an entire speculative apparatus about how functional brain asymmetry was a uniquely human characteristic, and how adults, males and whites showed much greater such asymmetry than children, females and blacks.

Over the past four hundred years, physics has repeatedly progressed from assumptions of asymmetry to principles of symmetry and from assertions of absolute entities to relative events.

An asymmetry in the temporal lobes in left and right hemispheres of humans and of chimpanzees has been found, with one portion of the left lobe significantly more developed.

At this early point, this differentiation or asymmetry does not appear to have been strongly evaluativethat is, one sphere was not particularly more important or more valued than the other.

Some liberal feminists feel that any sexual differentiation or asymmetry is due exclusively to male domination.

Plotinus means this for each level, and this is, of course, the standard asymmetry of emergence that we have seen at every stage of development.

I mounted two Reynald toroids with opposite fields on an optical bench pointed along the direction of the dipole asymmetry and varied their separation.

And in truth he looked it, a compound of strange and ancient races, what with his swarthy skin and the asymmetry and primitiveness of his features.

But once the eye got used to the asymmetry, there was no sense of wrongness.

They stationed themselves along the row, all glaring at Chemayev, each with a charcoal mouth and inkdrop eyes, faces with the ridged, barren asymmetry of terrain maps, the background figures in an apocalypse by Goya come to life, each beaming at him a black fraction of state-approved, party-sponsored enmity.

In brief, it deals with a predictable asymmetry in nuclear structure that can be utilized as a weak point in nuclear binding force.

Schaine went to inspect a pair of Uldra lamps, carved from blocks of red chert in the distinctive Uldra style of reckless asymmetry.

The asymmetry of the crystal, due to a one-sided working of the forces of crystallization, plays the same role here as does the alchemic opposition between the two bodies used for the production of frictional electricity.

The bends of his hat's brim answered to his rostral face and the slant of its asymmetries.

It is known that Maxwell's electrodynamics - as usually understood at the present time - when applied to moving bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be inherent in the phenomena.