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What does symmetry mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word symmetry? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
  2. (uncountable) The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.
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The symmetry of its economic system rests on some very unsymmetrical myths and illusions.
However, Rayor suspects that for webs with radial symmetry, the answer is a matter of biodynamics.
These quartz crystals from Cumberland appear to possess normal hexagonal symmetry.
From the want of symmetry in the base of the specimen, I suppose it to have been the pectoral spine of some huge siluroid fish.
In this case, the c-axis, or axis of trigonal symmetry, is vertical with respect to the organic substrate and hence to the wall itself.
There is concern with symmetry and abstract patterns, together with the simplification or elimination of background detail.

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