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.
What is your favorite mirroring tool? Bettina Tizzy 2008
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An undertone of pathos has been _my_ part in all these years to symmetrize the love of
A Little Book of Profitable Tales Eugene Field 1872
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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).
Naturejobs - All Jobs Anthony Mathelier 2010
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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.
Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901
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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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