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Definition of Asymmetrical

1. Adjective. Characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components.

2. Adjective. Irregular in shape or outline. "A dress with a crooked hemline"

Definition of Asymmetrical

1. Adjective. Not symmetrical. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a question) Presenting a false dilemma, or a choice between two things which are not opposites. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Asymmetrical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Asymmetrical

asylumlike asylums asymbiosis asymbolia asymmetral asymmetric asymmetric bars asymmetric centre asymmetric centres asymmetric cryptography

asymmetric disulfide asymmetric meter asymmetric motor neuropathy asymmetric synthesis asymmetric warfare asymmetrical (current term) asymmetrical chondrodystrophy asymmetrical meter asymmetrically asymmetries

asymmetrous asymmetry asymptomatic asymptomatic coccidioidomycosis asymptomatic neurosyphilis asymptote asymptotes asymptotic asymptotic analysis asymptotic giant branch

Literary usage of Asymmetrical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forced Movements, Tropisms, and Animal Conduct by Jacques Loeb (1918)
"CHAPTER VII asymmetrical ANIMALS IT was necessary for us to begin our analysis with symmetrical animals since as the result of this analysis the conduct of ..."

2. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1871)
"The incongruity of perfectly non-astigmatic vision with the normal asymmetrical cornea is in like manner unsatisfactory. A factor is evidently missing in ..."

3. Architectural Composition: An Attempt to Order and Phrase Ideas which by John Beverley Robinson (1908)
"... XV asymmetrical COMPOSITION VERY different from the picturesque but unorganized combinations alluded to at the close of the previous chapter, ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"The asymmetrical probability curve is tho second approximation— the symmetrical probability curve being the first approximation—to the law of frequency ..."

5. The Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell (1903)
"In this method we have a transitive asymmetrical relation P, and a collection of terms any two of ... Since the relation is asymmetrical, we can distinguish ..."

6. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1900)
"Although many asymmetrical conductors are known, none at present seem so well adapted to ... No homogeneous asymmetrical conducting material has been found. ..."

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