asymmetrical

[ UK /ˌe‍ɪsɪmˈɛtɹɪkə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌeɪsəˈmɛtɹɪkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components
  2. irregular in shape or outline
    a dress with a crooked hemline
    asymmetrical features
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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.
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