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UK
/ˌeɪsɪmˈɛtɹɪk/
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[ US /ˌeɪsəˈmɛtɹɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌeɪsəˈmɛtɹɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components
How To Use asymmetric In A Sentence
- Melancholic melody, harmony, subtle dissonance, throat vibrato and asymmetric rhythms make up their choral, ‘a cappella’ style.
- When a suitable counterweight is added at one end so that the reaction on one fulcrum is zero, the block can be spun asymmetrically 180 degrees about the other, giving a horizontal displacement (here's the basic physics). Archive 2004-07-01
- In the development of better asymmetric hydrogenation catalysts it is important to increase the energy difference between the transition complexes in order to obtain, as a consequence, larger enantiomeric excess. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 - Information for the Public
- Dicentrics, rings, acentric fragments and asymmetrical translocations were recorded separately.
- The rocks are asymmetrically folded and overthrust to the west, with chaotic units and abundant evidence for coeval soft-sediment deformation.
- Hezbollah is waging "asymmetrical" warfare against Israel based on increasingly radicalized and even fanaticized mass support. Nathan Gardels: Beginning of the End for Israel?
- The ideological clash between monotheism and polytheism furnishes the world with one of its first examples of asymmetrical warfare.
- The term asymmetric warfare is bandied about, another few words, 'hands tied behind backs', would be more appropriate. logdon On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- The two supratemporal fenestrae begin to close, getting smaller, sometimes asymmetrically.
- Positioned asymmetrically, an ornate, 17 th-century altarpiece marks the entrance to the baptistery and the nave just beyond.