symmetry
simetri
definition
noun
this series has a line of symmetry through its center
the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.
example
However perfect its 'symmetry' and proportions, a room might still leave us cold without such direct appeals to the eye, the body, and the spirit.
Following the rules of proportion and 'symmetry' of the ancients was important to Brunelleschi but he wanted these mathematical principles of beauty to be those seen by all observers.
In bodybuilding, 'symmetry' is the balance of the various muscles to each other, as well as the upper body to the lower body and the right side to the left.
The axis of 'symmetry' is indicated by a red broken line, along which pharyngeal slits are positioned.
The 'symmetry' between the two markets breaks down because whenever the central bank intervenes, it is always in the bond market, never in the commodity market.
the overall 'symmetry' makes the poem pleasant to the ear
Admire its graceful entryway and its classic sense of proportion and 'symmetry' .
Such was the proportion and perfect 'symmetry' of her body, each part in harmony with the rest, that no one till then had ever seen its like among human kind - a living work of art, an object of desire to lovers of beauty.
LAC Martin said the competition was judged on 'symmetry' , proportion and balance - whether the body is balanced top to bottom and side to side.
A bipolar nebula is one that is created by ejecting material primarily in a flat disk perpendicular to a single axis of 'symmetry' .
I note as well that although there is overlap between the prior beneficial owners, and the present beneficial owners, there is no exact 'symmetry' .
New taxa include branching forms up to 1 cm in diameter that display hexagonal 'symmetry' .
It's also the antithesis of a well-tailored suit, where you're looking for 'symmetry' , flowing lines, and the ability to draw your attention to the face.
There is also a certain 'symmetry' between the two species, for the adherents of a politicised religion, like soldiers in an army, are in a permanent state of combat and vigilance.
When an egg is spun on its side, its axis of 'symmetry' - a line stretching between the eggs' two tips - starts off by being horizontal.
There is a greater density beneath the lunar nearside, displacing its center of mass away from its axis of 'symmetry' , and the pull of the Earth keeps that greater mass directed towards us.
This claim uncovers why we find certain formal properties such as 'symmetry' and regularity aesthetically pleasing.
In snowflakes there is always this hexagonal, six-fold 'symmetry' ; that's because of the properties of water molecules.
The 'symmetry' between the fate of the Middle Eastern Nobel laureates and their Irish counterparts continues looking at those who have displaced them.
It's also a tidy world, with a degree of moral 'symmetry' between the past and the present.
Lino A. Graglia of the law school at the University of Texas is exceedingly impatient with such suggestions of 'symmetry' between right and left.
One was designed to form a cage-like structure with tetrahedral 'symmetry' , consisting of 12 subunits.
Such inconsistencies as there are in her statements of evidence of are in my judgment minor and do not challenge the overall 'symmetry' and substance of her story.
How do you establish some sort of 'symmetry' between those ideas about civil society and what happens in the institutional church in your country?
Consider those examples of Georgian architecture where a door doesn't even open, built there simply because a functioning door lies across the axis of 'symmetry' .
a crystal structure with hexagonal 'symmetry'
‘There is a disconcerting 'symmetry' between Prozac and Ritalin,’ he writes.
But there is also a curious 'symmetry' between opponents of the death penalty, and opponents of euthanasia and living wills.
this series has a line of 'symmetry' through its center
He examined the three dimensional figures obtained by rotating a regular polygon about an axis of 'symmetry' .
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