symmetricalsym‧met‧ri‧cal /sɪˈmetrɪkəl/ ●○○ (also sym‧met‧ric /sɪˈmetrɪk/) adjective 
Examples
The pattern was perfectly symmetrical.—symmetrically /-kli/ adverb
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Palladio built the Villa Rotunda following a symmetrical plan.
- The columns on either side of the door were perfectly symmetrical.
- The leaves of most trees are symmetrical in shape.
- As a result, he was able to create a symmetrical, monumental composition of great power.
- So, it is a myth that conversational discourse is inevitably symmetrical.
- The glassy texture is the result of lack of regular, symmetrical order in the arrangement of atoms.
- There are usually very many muscles - up to 2000 or so in some Lepidopteran larvae - and the system is bilaterally symmetrical.
- Thus, any change in a gene will tend to make the ornament smaller, less symmetrical, or less colorful.
- When leafless, their bark is pretty, and the symmetrical structure of the branches has a classical quality.
- With pinch and cartridge pleat tape you will need to balance your end spaces to make your pleating symmetrical on both curtains.
Longman Language Activatorhaving a regular shape► regular
Collocations evenly shaped with parts or sides of equal size: · Draw a regular hexagon with 90 mm sides.· She was attractive rather than beautiful, with regular features and dark hair.
► symmetrical if something is symmetrical , its two halves, on either side of a central line, are exactly alike: · The leaves of most trees are symmetrical in shape.· Palladio built the Villa Rotunda following a symmetrical plan.
WORD SETS► Mathsabacus, nounalgebra, nounangle, nounarc, nounarea, nounarithmetic, nounarithmetic, adjectivearithmetic progression, nounaxis, nounbar chart, nounbar graph, nounbase, nounbinomial, nounbisect, verbBoolean, adjectiveC, nouncalculator, nouncalculus, nouncanonical, adjectivechord, nouncipher, nouncircumference, nouncircumscribe, verbcompass, nouncomplementary, adjectivecomputation, nouncompute, verbconcentric, adjectivecone, nouncongruent, adjectiveconical, adjectiveconstant, nouncontain, verbcoordinate, nouncoordinate, adjectivecos, cosine, nouncube, nouncubic, adjectivecurvature, nouncurve, nouncut, verbdeci-, prefixdeviation, noundiagonal, adjectivediameter, noundifferential calculus, noundigit, noundimension, noundomain, nouneccentric, adjectiveellipse, nounelliptical, adjectiveequal, adjectiveequal, verbequals sign, nounequation, nounequilateral triangle, nounexponential, adjectiveexpress, verbexpression, nounface, nounfigure, nounflow chart, nounformula, nounfraction, nounfractional, adjectivefunction, noungeometric, adjectivegeometry, noungraph, noungraphically, adverbgraph paper, noungrid, nounHCF, helix, nounheptagon, nounhexagon, nounhistogram, nounhypotenuse, nounimperial, adjectiveimproper fraction, nouninfinity, nouninformation theory, nouninnumerate, adjectiveinto, prepositioninverse, adjectiveisosceles triangle, nounline graph, log, nounlogarithm, nounlong division, nounlozenge, nounmath, nounmathematical, adjectivemathematician, nounmathematics, nounmatrix, nounmean, adjectivemedian, nounmedian, adjectivemetric, adjectiveminus, prepositionminus, nounminus, adjectiveminus sign, nounminute, nounmultiplication, nounmultiplication sign, nounmultiplication table, nounmultiply, verbN, nounnumber, nounnumerate, adjectivenumeration, nounoblong, adjectiveobtuse angle, nounoctagon, nounoval, nounparabola, nounparallel, adjectiveparallelogram, nounpentagon, nounpercentage, nounperimeter, nounperpendicular, nounpi, nounpictogram, nounpie chart, nounplane, nounplane geometry, nounplus, prepositionplus, nounplus, adjectiveplus sign, nounpolygon, nounpolyhedron, nounpower, nounprism, nounprobability, nounproof, nounproportion, nounproposition, nounprotractor, nounquadrangle, nounquadrant, nounquadratic equation, nounquadri-, prefixquadrilateral, nounradius, nounratio, nounrectangle, nounrectilinear, adjectiverecur, verbrhombus, nounright angle, nounright-angled triangle, nounroot, nounruler, nounscale, nounscalene triangle, nounscatter diagram, section, nounsegment, nounsemicircle, nounset square, nounsine, nounslide rule, nounsolid, adjectivesolid, nounsolution, nounsolve, verbsphere, nounsquare, adjectivesquare, nounsquare, verbsquare, adverbsquarely, adverbsquare root, nounsubset, nounsubtract, verbsubtraction, nounsum, nounsurface area, nounsymmetrical, adjectivesymmetry, nountangent, nounterm, nountheorem, nounthreefold, adjectivetimes, prepositiontrapezium, nountriangle, nountrigonometry, nountwo-dimensional, adjectivevalue, nounvariable, nounvector, nounVenn diagram, nounvertex, nounvertical, adjectivevolume, nounwork, verbX, nounx-axis, nouny-axis, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► perfectly
an object or design that is symmetrical has two halves that are exactly the same shape and size OPP asymmetrical: · Its sides were moulded in a swirling, perfectly symmetrical design.· First, the Universe appears perfectly symmetrical in the ways it enforces its laws.· The house move was a perfectly symmetrical operation: lucid, elegant.· The perfectly symmetrical large football was crowned by a smaller one: his head.
NOUN► shape· B bit it and spoiled its smooth, symmetrical shape somewhat.
The pattern was perfectly symmetrical.—symmetrically /-kli/ adverb