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UK
/ˌeɪsɪmˈɛtɹɪkəl/
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[ US /ˌeɪsəˈmɛtɹɪkəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌeɪsəˈmɛtɹɪkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components
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irregular in shape or outline
a dress with a crooked hemline
asymmetrical features
How To Use asymmetrical In A Sentence
- When a suitable counterweight is added at one end so that the reaction on one fulcrum is zero, the block can be spun asymmetrically 180 degrees about the other, giving a horizontal displacement (here's the basic physics). Archive 2004-07-01
- Dicentrics, rings, acentric fragments and asymmetrical translocations were recorded separately.
- The rocks are asymmetrically folded and overthrust to the west, with chaotic units and abundant evidence for coeval soft-sediment deformation.
- Hezbollah is waging "asymmetrical" warfare against Israel based on increasingly radicalized and even fanaticized mass support. Nathan Gardels: Beginning of the End for Israel?
- The ideological clash between monotheism and polytheism furnishes the world with one of its first examples of asymmetrical warfare.
- The two supratemporal fenestrae begin to close, getting smaller, sometimes asymmetrically.
- Positioned asymmetrically, an ornate, 17 th-century altarpiece marks the entrance to the baptistery and the nave just beyond.
- And yet, the reason why most wars today are asymmetrical is precisely due to the fact that America has held the world in a territorial stasis where conventional warfare does not bring as much benefit as insurgency does. The New URL for the War Nerd is… « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy
- Grouping pictures in symmetrical or asymmetrical groupings will always give a stylish look.
- That's why the zip on my stripy canvas clothes cover came out asymmetrical.