English-Thai Dictionary

symmetry

N การ มี สัดส่วน ที่ รับ กัน  ความ สมมาตร  proportion harmony balance kan-me-sad-suan-ti-rab-kan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SYMMETRY

n.[Gr. with, together, and to measure. ] A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; or the union and conformity of the members of a work to the whole. Symmetry arises from the proportion which the Greeks call analogy, which is the relation of conformity of all the parts to a certain measure; as the symmetry of a building or an animal body. Uniform symmetry, in architecture, is where the same ordonnance reigns throughout the whole.
Respective symmetry, is where only the opposite sides are equal to each other.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SYMMETRY

Sym "me *try, n. Etym: [L. symmetria, Gr. symétrie. See Syn-, and Meter rhythm. ]

 

1. 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.

 

2. (Biol.)

 

Defn: 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.

 

Note: Bilateral symmetry, or two-sidedness, in vertebrates, etc. , is that in which the body can be divided into symmetrical halves by a vertical plane passing through the middle; radial symmetry, as in echinoderms, is that in which the individual parts are arranged symmetrically around a central axis; serial symmetry, or zonal symmetry, as in earthworms, is that in which the segments or metameres of the body are disposed in a zonal manner one after the other in a longitudinal axis. This last is sometimes called metamerism.

 

3. (Bot. ) (a ) Equality in the number of parts of the successive circles in a flower. (b ) Likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regularity. Axis of symmetry. (Geom.) See under Axis. -- Respective symmetry, that disposition of parts in which only the opposite sides are equal to each other.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

symmetry

sym me try |ˈsimitrē ˈsɪmətri | ▶noun ( pl. symmetries ) the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis: this series has a line of symmetry through its center | a crystal structure with hexagonal symmetry. • correct or pleasing proportion of the parts of a thing: an overall symmetry making the poem pleasant to the ear. • similarity or exact correspondence between different things: a lack of symmetry between men and women | history sometimes exhibits weird symmetries between events. • Physics & Mathematics a law or operation in which a physical property or process has an equivalence in two or more directions. DERIVATIVES sym me trize |-ˌtrīz |verb ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (denoting proportion ): from French symétrie or Latin symmetria, from Greek, from sun- ‘with ’ + metron ‘measure. ’

 

symmetry breaking

sym me try break ing ▶noun Physics the absence or reduction of manifest symmetry in a situation despite its presence in the laws of nature underlying it.

 

Oxford Dictionary

symmetry

symmetry |ˈsɪmɪtri | ▶noun ( pl. symmetries ) [ mass noun ] the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis: this series has a line of symmetry through its centre | a crystal structure with hexagonal symmetry. • correct or pleasing proportion of the parts of a thing: the overall symmetry makes the poem pleasant to the ear. • similarity or exact correspondence between different things: the political symmetry between the two debates | [ count noun ] : history sometimes exhibits weird symmetries between events. • [ count noun ] Physics & Mathematics a law or operation where a physical property or process has an equivalence in two or more directions. DERIVATIVES symmetrize (also symmetrise ) verb ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (denoting proportion ): from French symétrie or Latin symmetria, from Greek, from sun- ‘with ’ + metron ‘measure ’.

 

symmetry breaking

sym |metry break |ing ▶noun [ mass noun ] Physics the absence or reduction of manifest symmetry in a situation despite its presence in the laws of nature underlying it.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

symmetry

symmetry noun the garden is laid out with perfect symmetry: regularity, evenness, uniformity, consistency, conformity, correspondence, equality; balance, proportions; formal concord.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

symmetry

symmetry noun 1 the garden is neat, laid out with perfect symmetry: regularity, evenness, uniformity, equilibrium, consistency, congruity, conformity, agreement, correspondence, orderliness, equality. ANTONYMS asymmetry, irregularity. 2 the remarkable symmetry of the poem: balance, proportions, regularity, evenness of form, harmony, harmoniousness, consonance, concord, coordination. ANTONYMS asymmetry.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

symmetry

sym me try /sɪ́mətri / (! symme-は /sɪmə /) 名詞 U 1 相称, 対称 (↔asymmetry ).2 釣り合い, 均斉 [調和 ]美 .