different between symmetry vs asymmetric

English

Etymology

From Latin symmetria, from Ancient Greek ????????? (summetría), from ????????? (súmmetros, “symmetrical”), from ??? (sún, “with”) + ?????? (métron, “measure”). Synchronically, syn- +? -metry.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s??m?tr?, IPA^(key): /?s?m?t?i/

Noun

symmetry (countable and uncountable, plural symmetries)

1. Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
2. The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.

Related terms

• symmetric

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References

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

asymmetric (comparative more asymmetric, superlative most asymmetric)

1. Not symmetric.

   an asymmetric shape

   asymmetric gameplay, where different players have different experiences

2. (cryptography) Not involving a mutual exchange of keys between the sender and receiver.
3. (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.

Synonyms

• (shape: not symmetric): asymmetrical
• nonsymmetric
• unsymmetrical

Antonyms

• (shape: symmetric): symmetrical

Derived terms

• asymmetric bars
• asymmetric centre
• asymmetric meter
• asymmetric warfare
• asymmetrically

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See also

• antisymmetric
• dissymmetric
• non-symmetric