symmetry
Any pair of numbers symmetrically placed about the center of the square sums to 17.
Two symmetrically laced red bands run down the side of this watermelon green bowl.
You need a strategy to apply symmetrically and based on clear rules.
Fighting war symmetrically means lining up our armies against their armies, tanks against tanks.

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 symmetrically

symmetrically
In either case the two gerunds are symmetrically coordinated or parallel, in that each one could be construed as being in construction with the auxiliary.
Two infinite parallel vortex sheets were disturbed, first symmetrically and then non-symmetrically, over a small segment of their length.
In lateral view, larvae slightly and almost symmetrically vaulted; glabella and protopygidial axis inflated.
Moreover, it applies, more or less symmetrically, to one's own person, to land, and to chattels.
In each case, the positional disparity was added symmetrically to the left and right eye stimuli.
Care was taken to perform all experiments symmetrically, heating and cooling by the same amount about room temperature.
That is, no care is taken to investigate whether the effects are changed symmetrically during expansions and contractions.
On a priori grounds, one might expect the limbs to be organized symmetrically.
We discuss them in the order of increasing heating rates starting with the symmetrically heated loop.
Symmetrically, it is specific to the possibility of future action.
Symmetrically, formally identical strategies by defendant can be employed to reduce the minimum amount a plaintiff will be prepared to accept in settlement.
High voltage was supplied to the discharge tube via six coaxial cables symmetrically surrounding the axis of the tube.
Furthermore, guideline developers, auditors, and other stakeholders participating in the guideline process are not symmetrically situated.
Simulations in which activation reached a peak and then decayed symmetrically were also carried out.
A typical metacontrast display consists of a target flanked symmetrically by a mask.
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