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US
/səˈmɛtɹɪk/
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[ UK /sɪmˈɛtɹɪk/ ]
[ UK /sɪmˈɛtɹɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts
How To Use symmetric In A Sentence
- Melancholic melody, harmony, subtle dissonance, throat vibrato and asymmetric rhythms make up their choral, ‘a cappella’ style.
- The spacecraft's mass at launch was some 13 tonnes, most of which was the propellants unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and dinitrogen tetroxide (DTO). BBC News - Home
- In this way each part of the fan is aggraded and its symmetric form is preserved. The Elements of Geology
- 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.
- After our eyes adjust, we find the walls to be a gorgeous translucent blue, the surface scalloped into smooth, symmetrical wavelets.
- Because the loquat, or Japanese plum, is symmetrical and has a dense, evergreen crown, it is desirable in the home landscape.
- 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.
- In the development of better asymmetric hydrogenation catalysts it is important to increase the energy difference between the transition complexes in order to obtain, as a consequence, larger enantiomeric excess. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 - Information for the Public