asymmetry

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  1. noun Lack of balance or symmetry.

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  • They also speculated on another mechanism that would create the asymmetry, the presence of a cosmic string, a sort of linear fracture in space, which could produce the observed asymmetry. —  AnalogSFF,May2007
  • America's media asymmetry -- tilted from vacuous mainstream to ideological right -- contributed to today's crises and must be addressed for real change to be possible, writes Robert Parry. —  Consortiumnews.com
  • Markets no longer promote equilibrium but asymmetry, as the ideal of unipolarity is realized fleetingly in acts of war. —  Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET
  • Escalated contests will, however, occur if information to the contestants about the asymmetry is imperfect. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • This initial asymmetry is the reason why the tip of the heart - after a number of further rotations - in the end points towards the left side of the body. —  innovations-report
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  1. from Greek ἀσυμμετρία, incommensurability, disproportion, from ἀσύμμετρος: see asymmetrous. Cf. symmetry.
 

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