symmetric
- adjective
- /sɪˈmɛtrɪk/
- Vivid green pagodas sat under a sunny sky, with a beautifully symmetric volcanic cone behind them.
- symmetric matrix
- spherically symmetric
- symmetric algorithms
How does that emerge from symmetric fundamental laws?
- How does that emerge from symmetric fundamental laws?
- Then they add more and more symmetrical pictures, and people love it.
- And I'm thinking if nature itself were symmetric, that could never happen.
- There is a mirror symmetric activation of the pain system.
- And there's no way they could have created these perfectly symmetrical, perfectly square.
- And not only that, the dip was not symmetric.
Examples
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The entire metric, the entire matrix is symmetric, right?
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The triangle will denote the symmetric difference operation.
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So it's actually symmetric about the origin.
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There is a mirror symmetric activation of the pain system.
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Try to find the parametric and symmetric equations of the line.
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Applied to this gait study, the higher the harmonic ratio, the more symmetric the gait.
Academic text (1991) -
The architect designed a building with a symmetric facade that perfectly reflected the surrounding landscape.
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In mathematics, a symmetric shape has equal sections on both sides of a central line.
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The butterfly's wings were symmetric, with identical patterns mirrored on each side.
Synonyms
A shape or object that has matching parts on both sides when you cut it down the middle
Having both left and right matching sides and parts that repeat around the center
Having two matching halves on each side of a middle line
The left and right sides of a body or object match each other
Having the same parts on both sides, like a leaf with the same top and bottom
Having the same look as in a mirror
Parts are the same on opposite sides of a central point
Parts spread out from a central point so slices around it look the same
A flower that can be divided into similar halves by any line through its center
Having three parts arranged around a center like a triangle
Antonyms
How Symmetric
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Symmetric comes from Greek parts sym- meaning 'together' and metron meaning 'measure', the same root as meter. So something symmetric has its parts 'measured together' on both sides, which is why it looks balanced.