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单词 symmetry
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symmetry
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Things that have symmetry are balanced, with each side reflecting the other. A human body has such complex symmetry, from eyes, ears, and nostrils to arms, legs, and feet, that even a minor injury can make a body look unbalanced.
Snowflakes and butterflies often have a remarkable natural symmetry, with patterns on one side matched by those on the other. Objects that have identical or very similar parts lying at equal distances from a central point or line or plane — that is, objects that have symmetry — often work better. Symmetry helps boats stay upright in water. In design, symmetry is a balancing of objects, as when two candlesticks on a fireplace mantel are at equal distances from the center of the mantel. A lack of symmetry — i.e., asymmetry — might mean putting both candlesticks together at one end of the mantel.
WORD FAMILY
symmetry: dissymmetry, supersymmetry, symmetric, symmetrical, symmetries, symmetrise, symmetrize+/symmetric: unsymmetric/symmetrical: symmetrically, symmetricalness, unsymmetrical/symmetrise: symmetrised/symmetrize: symmetrized/unsymmetrical: unsymmetrically
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If nothing else, the Rams’ lost season featured symmetry.
Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017)
The two halves of the painting closely mirror each other, a lattice of harmonious symmetry, while the whole buzzes in unfettered, electric lime.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 23, 2016)
Students meet weekly with curators at museums throughout Boston to study concepts ranging from symmetry and texture to form and motion.
New York Times(Dec 22, 2016)
1n balance among the parts of something
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proportion
disproportion
lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something
balance, counterbalance, equilibrium, equipoise
equality of distribution
2n (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
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balance, correspondence, symmetricalness
asymmetry, dissymmetry, imbalance
(mathematics) a lack of symmetry
geometrical regularity, regularity
a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles
bilateral symmetry, bilateralism, bilaterality
the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane
radial symmetry
the property of symmetry about an axis
spatial property, spatiality
any property relating to or occupying space
3n (physics) the property of being isotropic; having the same value when measured in different directions
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isotropy
anisotropy
the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions
property
a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class
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