Asymmetry

Quick meaning: Asymmetry is a noun meaning An absence of symmetry or proportion between the parts of a thing, or a distinction that produces such a lack of symmetry.

Meaning

An absence of symmetry or proportion between the parts of a thing, or a distinction that produces such a lack of symmetry.

More Meanings

1. The lack of a common measure between two objects or quantities; incommensurability.

Example Sentences

In this sense, the concern of political economy with assymetries of information among political actors is well-placed.

Despite the generally symmetrical appearance of the two hemispheres, however, a number of biological asymmetries have been documented during the last hundred years.

If the planet is on moderate eccentric orbit (0.01), it creates large-scale azimuthal assymetries which evolve at the orbital velocity of the corresponding resonance, for example at half time the planet velocity for the stronger resonance, the 2:1 one.

Transnational feminists argue that feminists need to understand the material conditions that shape women's lives in diverse locations, particularly in a world "structured by transnational economic links and cultural assymetries" (Grewal and Kaplan, 3).

Word Forms

• asymmetries

Synonyms for asymmetry

Depending on context, synonyms include imbalance.

Antonyms for asymmetry

Common opposites include balance, correspondence, symmetry, symmetricalness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imbalance, disparity, disproportion, inequality, one-sided, mismatch.

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