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symmetrical

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1. symmetrical - Adjective

2. symmetrical - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Involving or exhibiting symmetry; proportional in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building.

Having the organs or parts of one side corresponding with those of the other; having the parts in two or more series of organs the same in number; exhibiting a symmetry. See Symmetry, 2.

Having an equal number of parts in the successive circles of floral organs; -- said of flowers.

Having a likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regular.

Having a common measure; commensurable.

Having corresponding parts or relations.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves. John Venn

Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but 'vector' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature. William Thomson

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical. Richard Griffiths

Stalinism and fascism, in spite of a deep difference in social foundations, are symmetrical phenomena. In many of their features they show a deadly similarity. Leon Trotsky

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have perfectly symmetrical ankles. T. J. Miller

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