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Some people find the asymmetry of the building disorientating.
Asymmetry has been used in the stadium design to customize parts of the building for specific purposes.
Nuclear asymmetry has made some nations fearful and suspicious.
Pockets of economic, educational, and demographic asymmetries need to be addressed on both the local and the national level.

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asymmetry | American Dictionary

asymmetry
noun[ C ]
us/ˌeɪˈsɪm·ɪ·tri/
geometry, art
the quality of having parts on either side or half that do not match or are not the same size or shape

Examples of asymmetry

asymmetry
Lengthening appears to occur less frequently among trochaic systems than iambic systems, and an analysis of rhythmic lengthening must account for this asymmetry.
Humanlike structural left-right brain asymmetries are therefore present in great apes without any related functional specializations for language.
This allows the determination of the asymmetry coefficient of the gravitational turbulent mixing for gases.
Positive feedback over time simultaneously increases power asymmetries and renders them less visible.
Lakshmanan suggests two possible explanations for the lack of a subject-object asymmetry in her data.
The great asymmetries of name recognition, experience and resources require one to reconsider the model in these terms.
The asymmetry in nonrestrictive relatives between weak and strong crossover effects, the latter remaining but not the former, cannot however be predicted.
He also was the first in demonstrating the left-right functional asymmetry of language processing in the brain.
Thus, it is possible that right prefrontal asymmetry results in reduced inhibitory signals toward the amygdala, which would then maintain aversive-related responses.
First, this asymmetry may be related to context- or genre-specific constraints in time and place of information giving.
Failure to address this asymmetry increases the variability of output and decreases trend output growth below the economy's potential over time.
At 35-deg eccentricity, the acuity asymmetry along the horizontal meridian was maintained with acuity for both significantly higher in the nasal retina.
Possible existence of moving equilibria in series not showing asymmetry is investigated and modeled with another smooth transition autoregressive model.
Our conclusions concern two apparent asymmetries in our response data which deserve some commentary.
Such proposals do not in and of themselves provide insight into the apparent asymmetry between questions and relative clauses.
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