symmetry

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From Latin symmetria, from Ancient Greek συμμετρία (symmetria), from σύμμετρος (summetros, symmetrical), from σύν (sun, with) + μέτρον (metron, measure).

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symmetry (plural symmetries)

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

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  1. ^ In poetic usage, symmetry is sometimes pronounced sĭʹmĭtrī, as, for example, in the first verse of William Blake’s “The Tyger” in Songs of Experience (1794):
    Tyger Tyger, burning bright, // In the forests of the night: // What immortal hand or eye, // Could frame thy fearful symmetry?