Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To give symmetry to; make symmetrical or proportional.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make proportional in its parts; reduce to symmetry. Also spelled
symmetrise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive and intransitive To make or become
symmetric .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make symmetric
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Examples
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If the owner gives you fullperm on an object then the symmetrizor can symmetrize it , but even without the tool, it's possible to copy it by hand since we can see all of its shape info in the build window.
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An undertone of pathos has been _my_ part in all these years to symmetrize the love of
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We construct a distribution diagram on a set of distances (where histogram bins record distances measured on steps of 5000 nucleotides) and symmetrize it by centering the first histogram bin (see below on the effects of symmetrization).
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All that Brother Slason needs now to symmetrize his new abode is a box from home ” a box filled [purple ink] with those toothsome goodies which only a kind, loving, indulgent sister can make and donate to an absent [black ink] brother.
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They may be accepted because "they fit in smoothly by analogy, or they symmetrize and simplify the overall design ....
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