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US
/səˈmɛtɹɪkəɫ/
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[ UK /sɪmˈɛtɹɪkəl/ ]
[ UK /sɪmˈɛtɹɪkəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities
- having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts
How To Use symmetrical In A Sentence
- 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
- 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.
- Well, humans do like symmetry and pattern, and math tends to make symmetrical, patterned images.
- The aortal trunk, G, of the arterial system is disposed along the median line, as well for its own safety as for the fitting distribution of those branches which spring symmetrically from either side of it to supply the lateral regions of the body. Surgical Anatomy
- A bony ridge may form over the fused suture and the ears may not be symmetrical (not at equal heights on each side).