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symmetries

symmetries is the plural of symmetry.

Meaning of symmetry

Noun

symmetry (countable and uncountable, plural symmetries)

  1. Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
  2. The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.
    • She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. 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

Phrases with symmetries

Questions about symmetries

What is symmetries the plural of?
Symmetries is the plural of symmetry.

Words near symmetries in the dictionary

  1. symmetricians
  2. symmetricities
  3. symmetricity
  4. symmetricized
  5. symmetricness
  6. symmetries
  7. symmetrification
  8. symmetrifications
  9. symmetrified
  10. symmetrisability
  11. symmetrisable

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