symmetry
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[edit] Etymology
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)
- Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
- (uncountable) The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.
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correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis
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satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.
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- ^ 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?
