asymmetrous

English

Adjective

asymmetrous (comparative more asymmetrous, superlative most asymmetrous)

1. (obsolete) Asymmetrical.
   • 1734, Isaac Barrow, “Lecture XV. Of the Acceptation of the Words Paronymous to Measure, viz. Mensurability, Mensuration, Commensurability and Incommensurability”, in John Kirkby, transl., The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge. […], London: […] Stephen Austen, […], →OCLC, page 282:

     [T]he Quantities compared with reſpect to ſuch a Meaſure are by Geometricians wont to be called Symmetrous or Aſſymmetrous, i.e. Commenſurable or Incommenſurable, and ſcarce any Thing in the Mathematics is more wonderful or more uſeful than the Contemplation of thoſe Properties, though nothing more remote from a vulgar Capacity and Conception.

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(See the entry for “asymmetrous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)