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* {{a|RP}} {{enPR|sĭʹmĭtrĭ}}, {{IPA|/ˈsɪmɪtɹɪ/|lang=en}}<ref name="poetic pron.">In poetic usage, {{m|en||symmetry}} is sometimes pronounced {{enPRchar|sĭʹmĭtrī}}, as, for example, in the [[s:The Tyger|first verse]] of [[w:William Blake|William Blake]]’s “[[w:The Tyger|The Tyger]]” in ''[[w:Songs of Innocence and of Experience|Songs of Experience]]'' (1794):<br/> Tyger Tyger, burning bright, // In the forests of the night: // What immortal hand or eye, // Could frame thy fearful symmetry?</ref> |
* {{a|RP}} {{enPR|sĭʹmĭtrĭ}}, {{IPA|/ˈsɪmɪtɹɪ/|lang=en}}<ref name="poetic pron.">In poetic usage, {{m|en||symmetry}} is sometimes pronounced {{enPRchar|sĭʹmĭtrī}}, as, for example, in the [[s:The Tyger|first verse]] of [[w:William Blake|William Blake]]’s “[[w:The Tyger|The Tyger]]” in ''[[w:Songs of Innocence and of Experience|Songs of Experience]]'' (1794):<br/> Tyger Tyger, burning bright, // In the forests of the night: // What immortal hand or eye, // Could frame thy fearful symmetry?</ref> |
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Revision as of 19:20, 29 January 2018
English
Etymology
From Latin symmetria, from Ancient Greek συμμετρία (summetría), from σύμμετρος (súmmetros, “symmetrical”), from σύν (sún, “with”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”). Synchronically, syn- + -metry.
Pronunciation
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Noun
symmetry (countable and uncountable, plural symmetries)
- Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
- (uncountable) The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.
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Related terms
Translations
correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis
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satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole
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References
- ^ In poetic usage, symmetry is sometimes pronounced sĭʹmĭtrī, as, for example, in the first verse of William Blake’s “The Tyger” in Songs of Experience (1794):
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, // In the forests of the night: // What immortal hand or eye, // Could frame thy fearful symmetry?