Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an unsymmetrical manner; without symmetry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Not symmetrically.
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- adverb In an
unsymmetrical way.
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- adverb in an asymmetrical manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, and its gnarled hands and fingers, it stood an aged, stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees.
War and Peace 2003
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The same is true of plants: the daisy's petals are a perfect example of radial symmetry and the branches of a tree extend unsymmetrically in all directions from the trunk.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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Their clerestory contains plain and uninteresting three-light windows, which are, moreover, unsymmetrically placed with regard to the arches beneath them.
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The north transept already had a large chapel of two stages upon its eastern side, so that the plan was treated unsymmetrically.
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The spruces were gnarled and twisted by the wind, a number of them were dead, and many leaned unsymmetrically athwart each other.
The Intriguers Harold Bindloss 1905
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Now when we have a spinning body, say a top, overloaded on one side so that gravity acts on it unsymmetrically, what happens?
Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895
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Even to this day the north-east wing of Perrault's façade projects unsymmetrically beyond the line of the north front.
The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893
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The mixed Gothic and Romanesque interior of +Sienna Cathedral+ (Fig. 150), with its round arches and six-sided dome, unsymmetrically placed over the crossing, is one of the most impressive creations of Italian mediæval art.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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He remembers, besides the works of art which he has seen, the fact of having walked a great distance through straight corridors, up and down short flights of marble steps, and through irregularly shaped and unsymmetrically disposed halls.
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome 1881
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He enumerated in 1896 [1087] nine principal currents, all flowing parallel to the equator, but unsymmetrically placed north and south of it, and showing scant signs of conformity to the solar rule of retardation with increase of latitude.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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