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Definition

balance among the parts of something

or more specifically:

having an exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane

Wikipedia lists many specialized definitions of symmetry including those used in such fields as Physics and Mathematics.

The building has multiple local symmetries.

symmetries = balance among the parts of something

So the first thing the morpho software did was take each side of your face and double it, like holding a mirror right down the middle, creating two examples of perfect symmetry.
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies

symmetry = exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing plane

I know a little of the principle of design, and I know this thing was not arranged on any laws of radiation, or alternation, or repetition, or symmetry, or anything else that I ever heard of.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper

symmetry = balance among the parts of something

You react to symmetry, skin tone, the shape of my eyes.
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies
She stared at the two rivers in the darkness, one big and one small, and remembered Shay saying that pretty symmetry was silly, because she'd rather have a face with two different sides.
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies
We were brothers all right, though his face respected symmetry.
Junot Diaz -- Drown
"It has a certain symmetry," said Eragon.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
Bilateral symmetry, an apparently higher center of gravity ... One clear shot, black glove to brain compartment, was all that I needed.
Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
There seemed a happy symmetry in this, and she was now intensely eager that Ralph should depart.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
You need symmetry in a wedding party.
Sarah Dessen -- That Summer
If I've learned anything in Kabul, it is that human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
But the lack of symmetry bothered me.
Andy Weir -- The Martian
What is startling, what is unexpected, what we cannot account for, what turns symmetry to nonsense—that comes suddenly to my mind, thinking of him.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
His shoulders were a trifle bowed and very narrow; the rest of his body had the symmetry of a lead pencil.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
The founder of the City of the Saints could not escape from the taste for symmetry which distinguishes the Anglo-Saxons.
Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
Frozen roots had burst through the ground, destroying the perfect symmetry of the earth, cutting thick gouges in the soil.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
There's symmetry in the timing.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
There seemed a happy symmetry in this, and she was now intensely eager that Ralph should depart.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
Usually you get all flowery and descriptive talking about the curves of the wood and the symmetry of the lines and the marriage of form and function.
Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility
Ordinarily, there was a certain symmetry, a military neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking junkyard.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Harrison Bergeron

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