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How to use asymmetry in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Asymmetry means an absence of symmetry or proportion between the parts of a thing, or a distinction that produces such a lack of symmetry. Example: “Asymmetry in pronominal sequencing is a recurrent feature of syndetic coordination, though with considerable variation in relation to literary genre.”

Examples of asymmetry by meaning

nounAn absence of symmetry or proportion between the parts of a thing, or a distinction that produces such a lack of...

  • Despite the generally symmetrical appearance of the two hemispheres, however, a number of biological asymmetries have been documented during the last hundred years.1993, Joseph B. Hellige, Hemispheric Asymmetry: What's Right and What's Left, →ISBN, page 114

More sentences with asymmetry

  • Asymmetry in pronominal sequencing is a recurrent feature of syndetic coordination, though with considerable variation in relation to literary genre.From the entry syndetic
  • This article examines categorizational asymmetries observable in the attempted production and negotiation of a “policeable” scene.2025, R. J. Smith, Categorizational asymmetries in context: Producing and resisting policeable scenes.. From the entry categorizational
  • To ascertain potential meta-bias, a funnel plot was qualitatively assessed for asymmetry.2020 March 19, Derek S. Chew, Eric Black-Maier, Zak Loring, Peter A. Noseworthy, Douglas L. Packer, Derek V. Exner, Daniel B. Mark…. From the entry metabias
  • The category of boundary leads to two further characteristics of semiosphere: binarism and asymmetry.2011, Claus Emmeche, Kalevi Kull, Towards a Semiotic Biology: Life is the Action of Signs, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry semiosphere
  • Third, the bubble bursters argue that the Greenspan-Bernanke policy is inherently inflationary because of a built-in asymmetry.2008 June 15, Alan S. Blinder, “Two Bubbles, Two Paths”, in New York Times. From the entry burster
  • The second character that contribute to the asymmetry is the convexing of the preprotocrista.1989, Zhexi Luo, Structure of the Petrosals of Multituberculata (mammalia) and Morphology of the Molars of Early Arctocyonids…. From the entry downstrike
  • I liked the asymmetry, the neo-punk block graphics, and the way the illustrations were spaced.1985 April 13, Scott Tucker, “Praise for the Designer”, in Gay Community News, page 4. From the entry neopunk
  • Asymmetry can also occur if adjacent channel walls are isothermal but at different temperatures or isoflux but dissipating different heat fluxes.2015, Myer Kutz, Mechanical Engineers' Handbook, Volume 4: Energy and Power, →ISBN. From the entry isoflux
  • Indeed, asymmetry precludes the possibility of pointing to any particular quo that is meant to recompense the quid.2000, Andrew Stark, Conflict of Interest in American Public Life, →ISBN, pages 163–164. From the entry quo
  • Surfaces that harbour topographical patterns or microimprinted adhesion molecules designed to introduce asymmetry to cell shape are known to influence cell speed and directionality.2016 January 29, “A Unidirectional Cell Switching Gate by Engineering Grating Length and Bending Angle”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry microimprinted
  • We propose that the leptomesons can generate also the baryon asymmetry that explains the imbalance in ordinary matter and antimatter in the observable universe.2016, Dmitry Zhuridov, “Baryogenesis from leptomesons”, in arXiv. From the entry leptomesons
  • For many, oriental asymmetry was a liberation, and sharawaggi became a cult term of praise when talking about everything from ceramics to buildings.2010, Philip Wilkinson, 50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know, London: Quercus, →ISBN. From the entry sharawadgi
  • We are so good that it is almost impossible to unrecognize a face in order to notice the asymmetries that help us first recognize it.2007 August 15, “Reading Lincoln’s Face”, in New York Times. From the entry unrecognize
  • Had he looked further, he might have discerned an eighth—Canada's constitutional debate, complete with notwithstanding clauses, devolutions and non-derogations, asymmetries and distinct identities.1990, Keith Henderson, "Creative ambiguity" (Review of A Canadian Challenge by Christian Dufour), The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 15 Dec, p.…. From the entry notwithstanding clause
  • However, the main drawback of Goffman's theory is that it fails to account for certain asymmetries in the performance of these "genderisms".1986, Christine Louise Williams, Women Marines and Male Nurses. From the entry genderism
  • For example, in the well-known Wu experiment arguing from the observed asymmetry of Co⁶⁰-decay electrons (without the experiments on anticobalt nuclei!) it followed that charge parity was not conserved.2013 [1965], Lev Okun, Weak Interaction in Elementary Particles: International Series of Monographs in Natural Philosophy, Elsevier…. From the entry anticobalt
  • Two of the sixteen germline cells in each egg chamber develop as pro-oocytes, and the first asymmetry arises when one of these cells is selected to become the oocyte.1997, Acaimo González-Reyes et al., “Oocyte determination and the origin of polarity in Drosophila: the role of the spindle genes”, in…. From the entry pro-oocyte

Meaning of asymmetry

  1. noun An absence of symmetry or proportion between the parts of a thing, or a distinction that produces such a lack of symmetry.
  2. noun The lack of a common measure between two objects or quantities; incommensurability.

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Questions about asymmetry in a sentence

How do you use asymmetry in a sentence?
Asymmetry is used as a noun. For example: “Asymmetry in pronominal sequencing is a recurrent feature of syndetic coordination, though with considerable variation in relation to literary genre.”
What is a short sentence with asymmetry?
“To ascertain potential meta-bias, a funnel plot was qualitatively assessed for asymmetry.”
What does asymmetry mean?
Asymmetry means an absence of symmetry or proportion between the parts of a thing, or a distinction that produces such a lack of symmetry.

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