The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unsymmetrical \Un`sym*met"ric*al\, a.
Wanting in symmetry, or due proportion pf parts.
(Biol.) Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ in number. See Symmetry.
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(Chem.) Being without symmetry of chemical structure or relation; as, an unsymmetrical carbon atom.
Unsymmetrical carbon atom (Chem.), one which is united at once to four different atoms or radicals. This condition usually occasions physical isomerism, with the attendant action on polarized light.
Wiktionary
a. Not symmetrical
WordNet
adj. lacking symmetry [syn: unsymmetric]
having unsymmetrical parts or unequal dimensions or measurements [syn: anisometric]
Usage examples of "unsymmetrical".
X, producing a distinctly lopsided and unsymmetrical set of chromosomes.
It is an Abode of the Unsymmetrical inasmuch as it is consecrated to the worship of the Imperfect, purposely leaving some thing unfinished for the play of the imagination to complete.
Wrapped in his heavy cave bear-skin cloak that covered the lopsided bulges of his unsymmetrical frame, he was an imposing yet strangely unreal presence.
Certainly the buildings were unusual: a motley arrangement of unsymmetrical roofs covered them while inside was to be found a seemingly incoherent mixture of large and small rooms, set at many levels and joined by twisting stairways and winding corridors.
Her face was strangely skewed, oddly unsymmetrical, with one side seemingly pushed back and slightly smaller than the other.
The image finally resolved from indistinct blob to something even less understandable -- an unsymmetrical jumble of irregular spires and spikes projecting in all directions.
Imagine on a kind of platform which lifts the base from the ground, the most peculiar, the most incomprehensible, the most prodigious heaping up of large and little cabins, outside stairways, galleries with arcades and unexpected hiding-places and projections, unsymmetrical porches, chapels in juxtaposition, windows pierced in the walls at haphazard, indescribable forms and a rounding out of the interior arrangement, as if the architect, seated in the centre of his work had produced a building by thrusting it out from him.
The suspension chains are constructed in the form of braced girders, so that they are stiff against unsymmetrical loading.
He who should see, spread out before him, the past lives of a multitude of men, could not easily decide which past he himself would wish to have lived were he not able at the same time to witness the moral results of these dissimilar and unsymmetrical facts.
A toxic, corrosive substance, it is a blend of UDMH - unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine — and diethylene triamine.