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Symmetrical   /səmˈɛtrɪkəl/   Listen
Symmetrical

adjective
1.
Having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts.  Synonym: symmetric.
2.
Exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities.  Synonyms: harmonious, proportionate.



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"Symmetrical" Quotes from Famous Books



... sympathetically toward ignorance, poverty and weakness. All the majesty of the summer, all the glory of the storms, all the beauty of galleries, is as nothing compared to the majesty and beauty of a full-orbed and symmetrical manhood. Should there be in every village and city a conspiracy of a few persons toward this refinement and culture, this beauty and sweet Christian living, the presence of these Christ-formed persons would transform the community. One such harvestful nature carries power to civilize ...
— A Man's Value to Society - Studies in Self Culture and Character • Newell Dwight Hillis

... the embrasure and the merlons consist of blocks of concrete held in caissons of strong iron plate. The surrounding earthwork is of sand. For closing the embrasure, Commandant Mougin provides the armor with a disk, c, of heavy rolled iron, which contains two symmetrical apertures. This disk is movable around a horizontal axis, and its lower part and its trunnions are protected by the sloping mass of concrete that covers the head of the casemate. A windlass and chain give the disk the motion that brings ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886 • Various

... Force, and the since famous orator, J. B. L. Curry, of Alabama, he returned to Ohio an educated young man. He was fitted for the battle of life which he has since so courageously fought, so far as America can afford facilities for procuring a complete, symmetrical education. Impatient to begin the struggle in his profession, he proceeded to Marietta, where the ambulatory Supreme Court of Ohio was then sitting, and having passed before an examining committee, composed of Messrs. Hart, Gardiner, Buel, and Robinson, ...
— The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes • James Quay Howard

... animal he possesses. The farm-yard and the stall are replenished with young, by creatures for months dismissed from labor, or handled with intelligent care while carrying their burden; because the farmer knows that only in this way can he secure improvement, and sound, symmetrical development, to the stock of his farm. In this he is a true, practical philosopher. But what is his treatment of her who bears his children? The same physiological laws apply to her that apply to the brute. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various

... of the opposing half such a picture, when completely in balance, will have some bit of detail or accent which the eye in its circular, symmetrical inspection will catch, unconsciously, and weave into its calculation of balance; or if not an object or accent or line of attraction, then some technical quality, or spiritual quality, such, for example, ...
— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore


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