symmetric

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In some fishes with vertebrated tail fins the fin is symmetric, and this seems to be the primitive type.

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  • The problem is that the master theory is too symmetric--there is a boson for every fermion--and this symmetry sets the cosmological constant to zero Susskind deals with this problem by asserting that there must be "islands" of reduced symmetry lying "off the coast" of the super-symmetric main body of string theory. —  AnalogSFF,March2006
  • The center has tightened noticeably and become far more symmetric, and Hanna is borderline hurricane. —  MATTNOYES.NET - Weather Website & Blog
  • If the entire airplane structure is not well symmetric, the model will often loop and crash down. —  ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
  • If the braiding is not symmetric, they are completely determined by the eigenvalues of a certain braiding morphism, and we determine precisely which values can occur in the various cases. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • With an asymmetric exponential distribution the peak in production is sharper than Hubbert's model and unlike Hubbert's model, which was symmetric, the rate of decline in production is almost always slower than the rate of increase. —  Econbrowser
 

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  1. from French symétrique = Spanish simétrico = Portuguese symetrico = Italian simmetrico, from New Latin *symmetricus, having symmetry, from Greek συμμετρικός, of moderate size, συμμετρία, proportion: see symmetry.
 

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