Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
symmetrical .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Symmetrical.
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- adjective
Symmetrical . - adjective set theory Of a
relation R on aset S, such that xRyif and only if yRx for allmembers 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). - adjective cryptography Using the same
key (or keys that are trivially related) for bothencryption anddecryption .
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- adjective having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts
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Examples
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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 2009
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It shows how we human beings see the objects around us in symmetric shapes.
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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 2008
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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
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First, Delta One has what mathematicians call a symmetric payoff profile.
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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.
SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968
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Our WAN op positions, what's known as symmetric performance, we have a box at either end of the network, and we get this incredible speedups.
unknown title 2011
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The two leading types of encryption are private key (also called symmetric key) cryptography and public key cryptography.
Latest from Computerworld Frank Ohlhorst 2010
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The two leading types of encryption are private key (also called symmetric key) cryptography and public key cryptography.
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Aren't you reading "symmetric" into what Brad wrote?
Keynesians and Monetarists, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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