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Symmetric in sentence

39 examples of Symmetric in a sentence

He was going to tattoo little black dots on the right side of my face and make me look very symmetric.
It's symmetric to the other leg.
A circle, for example, is symmetric under rotations about the center of the circle.
It has a very symmetric central body surrounded by a circular outer ring, with nothing visible connecting them.
So, what does it mean for an object to be symmetric?
So we can say an equilateral triangle is symmetric with respect to rotations of 120 degrees around its center.
In other words, an equilateral triangle is not symmetric with respect to rotations of 90 degrees around its center.
We humans aren't the only bilaterally symmetric organisms.
Some jellyfish are symmetric with respect to rotations of 90 degrees, while sea anemones are symmetric when you rotate them at any angle.
Let's look at one particular group: bilaterally symmetric animals.
The thing that unites bilaterally symmetric animals is that their bodies are designed around movement.
The thing to notice is that it is highly symmetric.
People generally find symmetric faces more attractive than asymmetric ones.
A physicist looks for larger, more symmetric patterns that include the established pattern as a subset.
The way at the bottom is a confined masonry building, where the walls are tied together, the building is symmetric, and it will stand up to an earthquake.
Nine minutes of psychedelic, pulsating, often symmetric abstract images, are enough to drive anyone crazy.
A symmetric adjustment has also occurred in China, via real appreciation of its currency and higher prices for labor and land.
What can be done to achieve a more symmetric adjustment between Europe’s creditors and debtors?
Though the battle is completely symmetric, the public assessment of it is bafflingly lopsided, especially in countries with financially conservative populations.
Fed officials wrung their hands about missing the target and reaffirmed their commitment to a symmetric goal of 2% inflation in the longer run.
While a semi-presidential system like France’s could enable Italy to suppress symmetric bicameralism and reform the worst aspects of its electoral law (known as porcellum, or “the crap law”), thereby improving governability, it would create as many problems as it would solve.
This was precisely the symmetric policy framework that Friedman advocated in 1948.
Just as a circle can be rotated about its center at any angle, changing the position of each of its points without changing its form, symmetric laws apply to changed situations without changing or losing validity.
An escalating trade war, with each side erecting symmetric import barriers, would fuel inflationary pressure in the US, potentially driving the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates higher and faster than it would otherwise.
Keynes’s proposed solution to this problem was an international payments system that would force symmetric adjustment on both surplus and deficit countries.
What happened in 2009 was a rare exception; shocks like that which followed the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy – sudden, strongly adverse, and highly symmetric – come once in decades.
A global agreement that is symmetric in all ways, across all countries of the world, is somehow a trick, he huffed, an anti-American plot.
The problem for the world economy is that everybody remembered Keynes’s lesson about the need for countercyclical policies only when the crisis erupted, after demanding to be left alone – with no symmetric policy intervention – during the preceding boom.
Moreover, this “negative partisanship” is symmetric.
(Results for expansionary shocks are symmetric.)