Symmetry
Pronunciation
In poetic usage, symmetry is sometimes pronounced , as, for example, in the of William Blake’s “†in (1794):Tyger Tyger, burning bright, // In the forests of the night: // What immortal hand or eye, // Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Origin
From Latin symmetria, from Ancient Greek συμμετÏία, from σÏμμετÏος (summetros, "symmetrical"), from σÏν (sun, "with") + μÎÏ„Ïον (metron, "measure").
Full definition of symmetry
Noun
symmetry
(plural symmetries)- Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
- (uncountable) The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.
- 1922, Ben Travers, A Cuckoo in the Nest Chapter 1, She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.