symmetry
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 8
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Definition of symmetry
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
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(countable, uncountable)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.”
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Etymology
From Latin symmetria, from Ancient Greek συμμετρία (summetría), from σύμμετρος (súmmetros, “symmetrical”), from σύν (sún, “with”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”). By surface analysis, sym- + -metry.
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