01 n. A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each…
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A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; the union and conformity of the members of a work to the whole.
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The law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity in form and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical.(Biol.)
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Equality in the number of parts of the successive circles in a flower.(Bot.)
Phrases & compounds
Axis of symmetry —
See under Axis.
Respective symmetry —
that disposition of parts in which only the opposite sides are equal to each other.