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Definition
balance among the parts of somethingor 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
- 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
- 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
symmetry = exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing plane
symmetry = balance among the parts of something
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