symmetry
Appearances are critical to the 51-year-old stylist, who wears a beard trimmed to symmetrical perfection.
The house looks inviting with its symmetrical architecture.
The book has a symmetrical , five-part structure.
The flower beds depicted in small East Asian paintings are so crisply structured, and also so symmetrical, that they're hard to tell apart from tiled floors or rugs.
The film in a very symmetrical way deals with the extremes on both ends of the spectrum.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Balance and imbalance
accord with something
align
axisymmetric
balance (something) out/up
balance of power
harmoniously
harmonization
harmonize
harmony
imbalance
never the twain shall meetidiom
non-symmetrical
nonequilibrium
off balance
on an even keelidiom
trade something off
unbalance
unharmonious
well balanced
well rounded

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Geometry: parts of geometrical shapes

Examples of symmetrical

symmetrical
A more mathematical notion of formula than the one considered in this paper could then perhaps lead to the construction of a symmetrical fixed point.
However, there is no way of deciding which form is basic, so here we have a symmetrical syncretism.
Real order is like a symmetrical edifice - it does not require propping-up to hold it in position.
As it can be seen the main radiation energy concentrates in the forward direction rather than a symmetrical structure for both forward and backward directions.
Evidently, in all these cases the fjords cannot be compared to the normal trajectories to the symmetrical finger.
Its structure is symmetrical with the regime's ruling institutions as well as its vertical articulation.
When conventional symmetrical biphasic pulses were used, there was little selectivity between activation of local cells and activation of axons of passage.
The sense of enclosure is further supported by the centering of the windows for a symmetrical division of the outside walls.
Maybe that's why it's so symmetrical: it's trying to balance these contradictions.
Unworked and worked shell ornaments, shell "trumpets," and several clusters of obsidian projectile points were distributed following symmetrical patterns, mainly along the periphery.
There is no mention here of how reliably tools are judged to be symmetrical by researchers, nor the specific criteria for symmetry.
If more symmetrical men have greater ability to invest in offspring, they might invest more under such conditions.
Symmetrical placement of the redox centers produces the minimum transfer times.
This causes the location of the maximum axial velocity to move near the outer wall in symmetrical positions above and below the radial centreline.
If the trade-off between resistance and competitive ability is direct and symmetrical, it is expected that resistance will decrease in the crowded lines.
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