Antimetric
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Antimetric is an adjective meaning In mechanics, relating to a pair of forces, a pair of oscillations or other motion acting in the opposite direction to symmetric.
Meaning
In mechanics, relating to a pair of forces, a pair of oscillations or other motion acting in the opposite direction to symmetric.
More Meanings
- (sound engineering, especially music) Going off the rhythm, especially during a transition from one time signature to another.
- Opposed to metrication.
- (electrical engineering) The converse of symmetric in electrical network theory, especially filter theory. A network where the input and output image impedances are the dual, or inverse, of each other as opposed to symmetric networks where they are equal.
Example Sentences
A Butterworth filter with an odd number of elements is symmetric while one with an even number of elements is antimetric.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include antithetic, antonymous, antipodal, antiasymmetric, antilogous, counterdirectional.
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