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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Lack of symmetry.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Want of symmetry, specifically that characteristic of dissymmetric bodies. See dissymmetric.
  • noun Symmetry between two objects, with respect to a plane of symmetry, as between the right and left hands, or between right and left crystals of tartaric acid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun asymmetry
  • noun obsolete, chemistry chirality

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (mathematics) a lack of symmetry

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