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symmetry groups

symmetry groups is the plural of symmetry group.

Meaning of symmetry group

Noun

symmetry group (plural symmetry groups)

  1. A group whose elements are all the transformations under which a given object remains invariant and whose group operation is function composition.
    • [The] situation is more delicate in the case of higher dimensional symmetry groups; it is not in general possible to reduce the order of an equation invariant under an r-parameter symmetry group by r using only quadratures.1993, Peter J. Olver, Applications of Lie Groups to Differential Equations, published 2000, page 76
    Synonyms:
    full symmetry group

Questions about symmetry groups

What is symmetry groups the plural of?
Symmetry groups is the plural of symmetry group.

Words near symmetry groups in the dictionary

  1. symmetrophile
  2. symmetrophiles
  3. symmetrophobia
  4. symmetry
  5. symmetry group
  6. symmetry groups
  7. symmetry plane
  8. symmetry planes
  9. symmict
  10. symmocid
  11. symmocids

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