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Dissymmetry

Dissymmetry \Dis*sym"me*try\, n. [Pref. dis- + symmetry.] Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.

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dissymmetry

n. 1 asymmetry 2 (context obsolete chemistry English) chirality

Usage examples of "dissymmetry".

Just as the will to power is "a structure in which differences of potential are distributed, a constitutive dissymmetry, difference, or inequality" (Deleuze), so information is composed of reversible gradients of electronic potential and ever-changing dissymmetries of charge.

When several phenomena are superposed in the same system, the dissymmetries are added together.

I am led to believe that life, as it is revealed to us, must be a function of the dissymmetry of the universe, or of the consequences that it involves.