different between asymmetric vs homotropy

English

From a- +? symmetric, as Ancient Greek ?????????? (asummetría, “disproportion, deformity”).

asymmetric (comparative more asymmetric, superlative most asymmetric)

Not symmetric.
an asymmetric shape
asymmetric gameplay, where different players have different experiences
(cryptography) Not involving a mutual exchange of keys between the sender and receiver.
(set theory) Of a relation R on a set S: having the property that for any two elements of S (not necessarily distinct), at least one is not related to the other via R.

homo- +? -tropy

homotropy (usually uncountable, plural homotropies)

(botany) A disposition of opposed, asymmetric leaves where a pair of leaves is rotationally symmetric

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