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noun

the quality or state of being asymmetric.

Origin:
1645–55; < Greek asymmetría lack of proportion. See a-⁶, symmetry

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It fits with a large body of research showing emotional asymmetry in the brain, he said.

Neither one of us was comfortable with the asymmetry in our roles or the apparent gender reversal.

On the internet, such implicit ranking may be made explicit by measuring relationships and their asymmetry.

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It fits with a large body of research showing emotional asymmetry in the brain, he said.

Neither one of us was comfortable with the asymmetry in our roles or the apparent gender reversal.

On the internet, such implicit ranking may be made explicit by measuring relationships and their asymmetry.

It may not need a universal asymmetry to explain the prevalence of matter.

The thing that fascinates me is the asymmetry of this process.

The asymmetry in money spent and effect achieved between the two sides is staggering.

The color seeped back into his face, and the asymmetry disappeared.

Combines empirical and clinical research on brain asymmetry with theoretical perspectives.

There is, admittedly, a risk that asymmetry could rise if euro countries specialise more.

In fact, there are theories which explain how such an asymmetry could have occurred.

For me, a single earpiece drives me crazy with its asymmetry.

As for the asymmetry of her calves, that would be untreatable and permanent.

Unless one resorts to disembodied souls as the reason for asymmetry.

Among the poorer countries, this asymmetry caused uproar.

Fowler had suspected that the asymmetry in people came from a quirk of limiting the number of friends in the study.

Kennedy took an information asymmetry and dumped it on its head.

The truth is that there is an asymmetry in these matters that belies the nomenclature.

Once upon a time, he had some useful insights on information asymmetry.

In the parlance of economists, this is information asymmetry.

Nevertheless, traces of this asymmetry can be seen in the king crab hindbody.

There is a completely asymmetry of scepticism about methodologies here.

At the heart of all special operations is asymmetry.

Balconies tilt gently toward the stage, and a subtle asymmetry sets the room slightly on edge.

It is a wonder that this information asymmetry has lasted for so long.

After he finished walking around the stage, a small asymmetry in his gait was visible.

Also, if one eye looks cherry-red while the other is much duller, this asymmetry may hint at a blockage in one eye.

The asymmetry causes flyers to lose speed as soon as they start to turn.

With sensor networks this traffic asymmetry is inverted: they send far more data than they receive.

The second key decision was crucial: creating asymmetry between writers and followers.

In fact, asymmetry of trade barriers goes the other way.

Engineering a purposeful tilt or asymmetry takes far more design and study than to build a straight symmetrical building.

Difficult medical matters-such as the asymmetry in power and knowledge between doctor and.

Evidence of this asymmetry could be found by playing a film of a spinning, slightly squashed electron in reverse.

It was long and therefore girlish, but asymmetry made it daring.

The overthrow of the book would have happened long ago but for the great user asymmetry inherent in all media.

The perceived unfairness of this asymmetry is linked to yet another grievance:.

The result of all this asymmetry is a fast, safe and efficient airplane.

There is evidence that asymmetry has contributed significantly to the ultimate expression of creativity: life.

But there is an asymmetry in the way the characters are conceived that undermines the film's credibility.

The trouble with terrorism is what the theorists call asymmetry.

Some matter-favoring asymmetry shows up in the annihilation of quarks, though the effect is relatively meager.

His research on the human body's asymmetry sparked papers on topics from social dominance to aging.

Last season, he got carried away with architecture and asymmetry.

The reason that trust is so fragile is because of the asymmetry of information that is built into banking.

Not immediately apparent is the asymmetry that resulted from its various phases and from the failure to complete one wing.

Yet the asymmetry of public attention has been astonishing.

Increases in strategic defaults could be averted by quick efforts to address this asymmetry.

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World English Dictionary

asymmetry (æˈsɪmɪtrɪ, eɪ-)

—n
	lack or absence of symmetry in spatial arrangements or in mathematical or logical relations

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Word Origin & History

asymmetry

1650s, "want of symmetry or proportion," from Gk. asymmetria, from asymmetros, from a- "not" + symmetros "commensurable."

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Medical Dictionary

asymmetry a·sym·me·try (ā-sĭm'ĭ-trē)
n.
Disproportion between two or more like parts; lack of symmetry.

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