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- Dictionarysymmetrical/sɪˈmɛtrɪk(ə)l/
adjective
- 1. made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis; showing symmetry: "the shape of a hill, smooth and symmetrical" Similar Opposite
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having two parts that match exactly, either when one half is like an image of the other half in a mirror, or when one part can take the place of another if it is turned 90° or 180 °: Common skin moles are round and symmetrical. involving actions or parts that are similar or balanced in some way:
The meaning of SYMMETRICAL is having, involving, or exhibiting symmetry. How to use symmetrical in a sentence.
Symmetrical definition: characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.. See examples of SYMMETRICAL used in a sentence.
having two parts that match exactly, either when one half is like an image of the other half in a mirror, or when one part can take the place of another if it is turned 90° or 180 °: Common skin moles are round and symmetrical. involving actions or parts that are similar or balanced in some way:
Something that is symmetrical has corresponding similar parts: in other words, one side is the same as the other. If you can draw a line down the center of something and get two similar halves, it’s symmetrical. Shapes like squares and circles are symmetrical.
(of a body, a design, an object, etc.) having two halves, parts or sides that are the same in size and shape. a symmetrical pattern. People’s bodies are never quite symmetrical. highly symmetrical crystals. opposite asymmetric Topics Colours and Shapes c2, Maths and measurement c2. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
1. possessing or displaying symmetry. Compare asymmetric. 2. (Mathematics) maths. a. (of two points) capable of being joined by a line that is bisected by a given point or bisected perpendicularly by a given line or plane: the points (x, y) and (–x, –y) are symmetrical about the origin.
If something is symmetrical, it has two halves which are exactly the same, except that one half is the mirror image of the other.
Symmetry definition: the correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a plane, line, or point; regularity of form or arrangement in terms of like, reciprocal, or corresponding parts.. See examples of SYMMETRY used in a sentence.
SYMMETRY meaning: 1. the quality of having parts that match each other, especially in a way that is attractive, or…. Learn more.
