Symmetrical means the same on both sides of a dividing line. A symmetrical face, symmetrical patterns, perfectly symmetrical.
No face is exactly symmetrical, and people rate faces closer to it as more attractive, which is one of the more reliable findings in the field. In physics, a symmetrical law is one that holds however you turn or move the system, and each such symmetry has a conservation law behind it.
1adjectivesymmetricalThe same on both sides of a dividing line.
“A butterfly's wings are perfectly symmetrical, like a mirror image.”
symmetrical is a quality.
Ancient Greek
συμμετρία
Latin
symmetria
English
symmetry
English, today
symmetrical
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From symmetry + -ical. symmetry comes from Latin symmetria, from Ancient Greek συμμετρία, from σύμμετρος (“symmetrical”), from σύν (“with”) + μέτρον (“measure”). by surface analysis, sym- + -metry.
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