"asymmetry" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /eɪˈsɪmɪtɹi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-asymmetry.wav Forms: asymmetries [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀσυμμετρία (asummetría), from ἀσύμμετρος (asúmmetros) + -ία (-ía), from ἀ- (a-) + σύμμετρος (súmmetros); equivalent to a- + symmetry. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|grc|ἀσυμμετρία}} Ancient Greek ἀσυμμετρία (asummetría), {{pre|en|a|symmetry|id1=not}} a- + symmetry Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} asymmetry (countable and uncountable, plural asymmetries)
  1. Absence of symmetry or proportion between the parts of a thing, or a distinction that produces such a lack of symmetry. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (lack of symmetry or proportion): عَدَم تَنَاسُق (ʕadam tanāsuq) [masculine] (Arabic), asimetría [feminine] (Asturian), asimetria [feminine] (Catalan), 不對稱 (Chinese Mandarin), 不对称 (bùduìchèn) (Chinese Mandarin), asymetrie [feminine] (Czech), asymmetrie [feminine] (Dutch), epäsymmetria (Finnish), asymmetria (Finnish), asymétrie [feminine] (French), asimetría [feminine] (Galician), disimetría [feminine] (Galician), ასიმეტრია (asimeṭria) (Georgian), Asymmetrie [feminine] (German), ασυμμετρία (asymmetría) [feminine] (Greek), neamhshiméadracht [feminine] (Irish), aisiméadracht [feminine] (Irish), asimmetria [feminine] (Italian), dissimmetria [feminine] (Italian), 非対称性 (hitaishōsei) (Japanese), 非対称 (hitaishō) (Japanese), アシンメトリー (ashinmetorī) (Japanese), 비대칭 (bidaeching) (Korean), asymmetri [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), asymetria [feminine] (Polish), assimetria [feminine] (Portuguese), asimetrie [feminine] (Romanian), асимметри́я (asimmetríja) [feminine] (Russian), асимѐтрија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), asimètrija [Latin, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), àsimetríja [feminine] (Slovene), asimetría [feminine] (Spanish), asymmetri [common-gender] (Swedish), awamparianyo (Tagalog), simetri (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-asymmetry-en-noun-ZYgseeGx Categories (other): English terms prefixed with a- (not) Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with a- (not): 49 51 Disambiguation of 'lack of symmetry or proportion': 66 34
  2. The lack of a common measure between two objects or quantities; incommensurability. Tags: countable, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: asymmetrization, magnetoasymmetry, pseudoasymmetry

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Despite the generally symmetrical appearance of the two hemispheres, however, a number of biological asymmetries have been documented during the last hundred years.",
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  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "asymmetrization"
    },
    {
      "word": "magnetoasymmetry"
    },
    {
      "word": "pseudoasymmetry"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ἀσυμμετρία"
      },
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      "name": "bor"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "a",
        "3": "symmetry",
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      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek ἀσυμμετρία (asummetría), from ἀσύμμετρος (asúmmetros) + -ία (-ía), from ἀ- (a-) + σύμμετρος (súmmetros); equivalent to a- + symmetry.",
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    {
      "form": "asymmetries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "~"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
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        {
          "ref": "1993, Joseph B. Hellige, Hemispheric Asymmetry: What's Right and What's Left, →ISBN, page 114:",
          "text": "Despite the generally symmetrical appearance of the two hemispheres, however, a number of biological asymmetries have been documented during the last hundred years.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Roger Ferlet, Alfred Vidal-Madjar, Circumstellar Dust Disks and Planet Formation, →ISBN:",
          "text": "If the planet is on moderate eccentric orbit (0.01), it creates large-scale azimuthal assymetries which evolve at the orbital velocity of the corresponding resonance, for example at half time the planet velocity for the stronger resonance, the 2:1 one.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, American Bar Foundation, ABF Working Paper - Issue 9304; Issue 9426, page 75:",
          "text": "In this sense, the concern of political economy with assymetries of information among political actors is well-placed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Amal Amireh, Lisa Suhair Majaj, Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Transnational feminists argue that feminists need to understand the material conditions that shape women's lives in diverse locations, particularly in a world \"structured by transnational economic links and cultural assymetries\" (Grewal and Kaplan, 3).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Absence of symmetry or proportion between the parts of a thing, or a distinction that produces such a lack of symmetry."
      ],
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        [
          "symmetry",
          "symmetry"
        ],
        [
          "distinction",
          "distinction"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The lack of a common measure between two objects or quantities; incommensurability."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "incommensurability",
          "incommensurability"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/eɪˈsɪmɪtɹi/"
    },
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʕadam tanāsuq",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "عَدَم تَنَاسُق"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asimetría"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asimetria"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "word": "不對稱"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bùduìchèn",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "word": "不对称"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asymetrie"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asymmetrie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "word": "epäsymmetria"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "word": "asymmetria"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asymétrie"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asimetría"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "disimetría"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "asimeṭria",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "word": "ასიმეტრია"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Asymmetrie"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "asymmetría",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ασυμμετρία"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "neamhshiméadracht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aisiméadracht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asimmetria"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dissimmetria"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hitaishōsei",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "word": "非対称性"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hitaishō",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "word": "非対称"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ashinmetorī",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "word": "アシンメトリー"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "bidaeching",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "word": "비대칭"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "asymmetri"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asymetria"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "assimetria"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asimetrie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "asimmetríja",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "асимметри́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "асимѐтрија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asimètrija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "àsimetríja"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asimetría"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "asymmetri"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "word": "awamparianyo"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "lack of symmetry or proportion",
      "word": "simetri"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "asymmetry"
  ],
  "word": "asymmetry"
}

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