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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Asymmetric.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lacking symmetry; asymmetrical: specifically, in botany, said of such flowers as lack numerical symmetry—that is, have the parts in the different cycles of unequal number. See
symmetrical , 5.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wanting in symmetry, or due proportion pf parts.
- adjective (Biol.) Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ in number. See
Symmetry . - adjective (Chem.) Being without symmetry of chemical structure or relation.
- adjective (Chem.) one which is united at once to four different atoms or radicals. This condition usually occasions physical isomerism, with the attendant action on polarized light.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
symmetrical
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking symmetry
- adjective having unsymmetrical parts or unequal dimensions or measurements
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Examples
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I like it because it is so perfectly unsymmetrical, as if two entire different painters started and finished it. datingjesus
You better stop thinking it’s crazy and believe in God « Dating Jesus 2009
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The tasks of preparing suitable ribosomal crystals for diffraction, and of interpreting the resulting X-ray diffraction patterns from such large and unsymmetrical entities, were at first widely viewed as impossible.
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Wouldn't having only one eye treated leave you unsymmetrical?
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I ate one during my first advanced swimming lesson (YMCA, 1979, a modified Finnish backstroke), as I competed in my first school chess tournament, while taking the ACT exam, during my first real date (this was in college — I started late due to my enormous unsymmetrical ears), and also a green sour apple blow pop as I was encouraging a young lady to accept a large diamond.
Charms L.P. 2010
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The car's website says, "Symmetry is so last year," and apparently unsymmetrical is in.
Steve Parker: Los Angeles Auto Show -- Clean Diesels Clean Up 2010
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Space shuttle flight director Kwatsi Alibaruho said this was caused by the massive and unsymmetrical bulk of the joined space station and shuttle, as well as the constant pull of Earth's gravity on the "stack."
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The car's website says, "Symmetry is so last year," and apparently unsymmetrical is in.
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The car's website says, "Symmetry is so last year," and apparently unsymmetrical is in.
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Lastly, there are eleven action periods, derived by dividing the thirty lunar dates in a rather unsymmetrical manner.
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Because of the unsymmetrical shape of the flagella, CW rotation causes tumbling.
Blurring the Line 2007
hernesheir commented on the word unsymmetrical
asymmetric.
July 21, 2010