Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as symmetrical.
Wiktionary
- adj. Symmetrical.
- adj. set theory Of a relation R on a set S, such that xRy if and only if yRx for all members x and y of S (that is, if the relation holds between any element and a second, it also holds between the second and the first).
- adj. cryptography Using the same key (or keys that are trivially related) for both encryption and decryption.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Symmetrical.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts
Etymologies
- From Latin symmetria from Ancient Greek συμμετρία (summetria). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It's the belief in symmetric fluctuations that drives the focus on policy rules rather than policy events.”
Keynesians and Monetarists, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“It shows how we human beings see the objects around us in symmetric shapes.”
“This phenomenon, of nature being non-mirror symmetric, is known as CP violation, and rocked the physics world when it was discovered experimentally in the 60’s.”
A Non-Technical Explanation of Flavo(u)r Physics « Imaginary Potential
“One contained a description of the solutions that I argued, from an economic standpoint, represented dynamic equilibrium outcomes in symmetric noncooperative games and in dominant-player games (International Economic”
“First, Delta One has what mathematicians call a symmetric payoff profile.”
“If such a group is given and held fast, then a figure in space is called symmetric if each automorphism of the group leaves it unchanged.”
“The two leading types of encryption are private key (also called symmetric key) cryptography and public key cryptography.”
“Aren't you reading "symmetric" into what Brad wrote?”
Keynesians and Monetarists, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“I like how this turned out, with the lights and the way they are kind of symmetric and framed by all the gear.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘symmetric’.
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mathematical jargon
pointless space, monoid, group, category, functor, homomorphism, kernel, endomorphism, endomorphism, hylomorphism, automorphism, topos and 19 more...
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tomduck's geeky words
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