Dissymmetry

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  • noun. Lack of symmetry.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Symmetry between two objects, with respect to a plane of symmetry, as between the right and left hands, or between right and left crystals of tartaric acid.
  • noun. Want of symmetry, specifically that characteristic of dissymmetric bodies. See dissymmetric.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. asymmetry
  • noun. chirality
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (mathematics) a lack of symmetry
  • Word Usage
    "As a result he devoted himself to the study of what he called dissymmetry, pointing out that inorganic substances are not dissymmetrical in their crystallization, while all the products of vegetable and animal life are dissymmetric."
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    asymmetry