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symmetrize, v.|ˈsɪmɪtraɪz|
[ad. F. symétriser (in sense 1 below), or f. symmetry + -ize.]
1. intr. To be symmetrical; to correspond symmetrically. rare.
1749J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 233 An air of becoming manliness..that symetriz'd [sic] nobly with that air of distinction..with which nature has stamped it [sc. his face]. 1786H. Walpole Let. to C'tess Ossory 28 Sept., With a mound of vermilion on the left side of his forehead to symmetrise with a wen on the right.
2. trans. To make symmetrical; to reduce to symmetry. Also absol.
1796Burke Let. Noble Ld. Wks. VIII. 46 He would soon have supplied every deficiency, and symmetrized every disproportion. 1853Blackw. Mag. LXXIV. 735 A picturesque scene, however seemingly unsymmetrical, will be found..to be symmetrised at least aerially, by the influence of light, shade and colour. 1874Contemp. Rev. Aug. 439 Charm of incident, grace of narrative,..majesty of eloquence,—all perfectly symmetrized with incomparable artistic skill. 1973Sci. Amer. Jan. 111/2 This leaves one column and one row, with the poison piece at the vertex... From now on the first player ‘symmetrizes’. Whatever his opponent takes from either line, he takes equally from the other.
Hence ˈsymmetrized, ˈsymmetrizing ppl. adjs.; also ˌsymmetriˈzation, the action or process of symmetrizing.
1854Fraser's Mag. XLIX. 149 The philosophic classes have never admitted that a moral change can be effected by political change, that a realized idea needs symmetrization in statute. 1862R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 60 When the several parts of an object..present a resistance to its [sc. the mind's] synthetical or symmetrising power,—it imputes to such objects a character of force and energy, which purely symmetrical compositions do not suggest. 1890Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. Aug. 448 The larva emerges..as a symmetrical animal, but the details of the process of ‘symmetrisation’—the strongly marked character of which justifies the use of an otherwise undesirable term—are still rather obscure. 1966Math. Rev. XXXI. 36/1 (heading) Matrix applications of a quadratic identity for decomposable symmetrized tensors. 1979Nature 29 Feb. 597/2 It is the interference between the two parts of the symmetrised wave-functions..that leads to the intensity interference. |