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How to use symmetry in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Symmetry means exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis. Example: “The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.”

Examples of symmetry by meaning

nounThe satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.

  • And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

More sentences with symmetry

  • The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.From the entry flow
  • That new study on noncommutative symmetries looks promising.From the entry study
  • E.g., orthochrysotile is an orthorhombic chrysotile, orthopyroxene is a pyroxene that forms orthorhombic crystals, orthohexagonal is having orthorhombic hexagonal symmetry.From the entry ortho-
  • The shape is folded along the lines of symmetry.From the entry along the lines of
  • A starfish has radial symmetry; a butterfly does not.From the entry radial symmetry
  • Notice that because of the assumed symmetric axon model azimuthial symmetry is assumed.2015 July 31, Irene Karanasiou, “Imaging of Conductivity Changes of Excitable Tissues Based on Focused Passive Microwave”, in The Open…. From the entry azimuthial
  • Ricci-flat metrics of the ultrahyperbolic signature which enjoy the l-conformal Galilei symmetry are constructed.2015, D. Chernyavsky, A. Galajinsky, “Ricci-flat spacetimes with l-conformal Galilei symmetry”, in arXiv. From the entry ultrahyperbolic
  • Coordinate constructions represent the special case of symmetry, parallelism, and coequality among the component clauses.2008, Ronald W. Langacker, Cognitive Grammar: A Basic Introduction, pages 406, 412. From the entry complex sentence
  • This polyhedron has I symmetry and can therefore be constructed in left- and right-handed forms.2006, P. W. Fowler, D. E. Manolopoulos, An Atlas of Fullerenes, page 50. From the entry snub dodecahedron
  • In type A structures, the photonic crystal cladding has even symmetry along the center of the defect.2004, Optics Letters - Volume 29, Pages 417-912 - Page 861. From the entry evenlike
  • Perhaps the most obvious next step is to investigate 4-polytopes with respect to symmetry equivalence.1984, London Mathematical Society lecture note series, numbers 88-90, page 101. From the entry 4-polytope
  • You will also note that the cleavage directions are obedient to the symmetry of the crystal.1982, Alan Holden, Phylis Morrison, “Cleaving and Gliding Crystals”, in Crystals and Crystal Growing, Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press…. From the entry cleavage
  • The truncated icosahedron and truncated icosidodecahedron have fivefold symmetry and cannot four four-connected frameworks with lattice symmetry.1962, The Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, volume 33, page 1008. From the entry truncated icosidodecahedron
  • It seeks the ideal compromise between position and negative, between body and scene, between symmetry and symmetry, between proportion and unproportion.2019, Armando Verdiglione, Urkommunismus. Fear of the Word, page 354. From the entry unproportion
  • The right earrings, coordinating shoes, the careful symmetry of a well-balanced look — these are things that please me.2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2025. From the entry sartorial
  • The thermally stimulated currents measured in hexagonal and cubic BaTiO3, however, show that both materials exhibit noncentric macroscopic symmetry.2016, Sina Hashemizadeh, Alberto Biancoli, Dragan Damjanovic, “Symmetry breaking in hexagonal and cubic polymorphs of BaTiO3”, in arXiv. From the entry noncentric
  • Unlike stony corals and other anthozoa, whose polyps have sixfold symmetry, the polyps of a gorgonian have eightfold symmetry.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 134. From the entry anthozoon
  • In the undistorted configurations both a divacancy and a semivacancy pair belong to the symmetry point group D3d .2012, D. Shaw, Atomic Diffusion in Semiconductors, page 234. From the entry semivacancy
  • Finally, the onedimensional quasi-crystals have a far richer structure since they are not tied to any rotational symmetries.2009 February, “Archived copy”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2012. From the entry onedimensional
  • These rules lack the mirror symmetry of the classical case.2009 February 3, John C. Baez with Mike Stay, “Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone”, in (Please provide the book…. From the entry linear logic
  • Our analysis of global cell division patterns reveals a maternally defined initial morphodynamic symmetry break, which identifies the embryonic body axis.2008 November 14, Philipp J. Keller et al., “Reconstruction of Zebrafish Early Embryonic Development by Scanned Light Sheet Microscopy”…. From the entry morphodynamic
  • The magnetic field component, Hz, of the waveguide mode considered assumes an evenlike symmetry along the center of the waveguide.2004, Optics Letters - Volume 29, Pages 417-912 - Page 861. From the entry evenlike
  • Footprints along a line have glide reflection symmetry.2004, Dorothy Koster Washburn, Donald W. Crowe, Donald Warren Crowe, Symmetry Comes of Age: The Role of Pattern in Culture, University of…. From the entry glide reflection
  • In this family of halo-substituted tetraphenylmethanes with S4or pseudo-S4-symmetry, the molecules exhibit similar columnar packing in the solid state.1998, Weber, E, Design of organic solids, Berlin; New York : Springer, page 63. From the entry tetraphenylmethanes
  • These figures indicate the general symmetry of the cells, their departure from the dodecahedral, and their tendency towards the tetrakaidekahedral, form.1992, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form. From the entry tetrakaidekahedral
  • The existence of a Higgs boson would be the simplest solution to the problem of electroweak symmetry breaking.1987, Robert N. Cahn, “The Search for a Heavy Higgs Boson at the SSC”, in Orrin Fackler, J. Thanh Vân Trân, editors, New and Exotic…. From the entry Higgs boson
  • It is a basic tenet in petrofabric analysis that the symmetry of rock fabric reflects the symmetry of the deforming movement.1968, Elbridge W. Gresseth, Rolland R. Reid, A Petrofabric Study of Tectonic and Mining-induced Deformations in a Deep Mine, U.S.…. From the entry petrofabric
  • It is that Joans of Arc, to fulfill the most shining symmetries of their destinies, should not grow interminably old.1966 January 27, Charles Poore, “Books of The Times: General de Gaulle Is Wired for History”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry Joan of Arc
  • Nature 'publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries.1904, John Morley, Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson. From the entry spicula
  • We find that in both LH2 and LH1 complexes, symmetry increases energy transfer rates by enabling the cooperative, coherent process of supertransfer.2016, Sima Baghbanzadeh, Ivan Kassal, “Geometry, supertransfer, and optimality in the light harvesting of purple bacteria”, in arXiv. From the entry supertransfer
  • We introduce explicit many-body interwire interactions that preserve time reversal symmetry and give energy gaps to all low energy degrees of freedom.2015, Sharmistha Sahoo, Zhao Zhang, Jeffrey C. Y. Teo, “Coupled wire model of symmetric Majorana surfaces of topological superconductors”…. From the entry interwire
  • An unexpected overweighted antipolaron is revealed in the quadpolaron state, and a hidden scaling behavior relevant to symmetry breaking is found in the bipolaron state.2015, Zu-Jian Ying, Maoxin Liu, Hong-Gang Luo, Hai-Qing Lin, J. Q. You, “Ground-state phase diagram of the quantum Rabi model”, in arXiv. From the entry antipolaron
  • We obtain all the type II supergravity constraints in the pure spinor ambitwistor string by imposing consistency of local worldsheet gauge symmetries..2015, Osvaldo Chandia, Brenno Carlini Vallilo, “On-shell type II supergravity from the ambitwistor pure spinor string”, in arXiv. From the entry ambitwistor
  • Buildings shaped like vast silver monoliths floated, and moved, horizontally and vertically, like titanic antigravitic machines dancing in precisely calculated, mathematical symmetry.2011, Matthew J. Drury, EDEN². From the entry antigravitic
  • Automorphisms capture the symmetries inherent in the structures and many important results have been proved by analyzing the automorphism group of the structure.2005, Maninda Agrawal, Nitin Saxena, “Automorpisms of Finite Rings and Applications to Complexity of Problems”, in Volker Diekert, Bruno…. From the entry automorphism
  • We suggest therefore that the expression "super-symmetry" might be more appropriate for the global concept and reserve the word "gauge" for local symmetries.1974, A Salam, “Super-symmetry and non-Abelian gauges”, in Physics Letters B. From the entry supersymmetry
  • Of the convex polyhedra with regular faces, the only ones that have tetrahedral, octahedral, or icosahedral symmetry are the Platonic and Archimedean solids.1966, Norman W. Johnson, “Convex Polyhedra with Regular Faces”, in Canadian Journal of Mathematics, volume XVIII, number I, Toronto…. From the entry polyhedron
  • And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creation, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.1921, Ben Travers, “Westward Ho!”, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC, part I…. From the entry that
  • And indeed, she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC. From the entry indeed

Meaning of symmetry

  1. noun Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
  2. noun The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.

Full definition of symmetry

Questions about symmetry in a sentence

How do you use symmetry in a sentence?
Symmetry is used as a noun. For example: “The room was small, but it had good symmetry and flow.”
What is a short sentence with symmetry?
“Footprints along a line have glide reflection symmetry.”
What does symmetry mean?
Symmetry means exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.

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