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Asymmetrical   /ˌeɪsəmˈɛtrɪkəl/   Listen
Asymmetrical

adjective
1.
Characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components.  Synonym: asymmetric.  Antonym: symmetrical.
2.
Irregular in shape or outline.  Synonym: crooked.  "A dress with a crooked hemline"






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"Asymmetrical" Quotes from Famous Books



... followed soon. She developed a belief that she was Eve and had to suffer. At hospital decided that she was in purgatory and expressed a variety of other religious beliefs. She also thought she was ill-treated at hospital. Her head was asymmetrical: skull thick and eburnated. Brain (1130 grams described as normal). Chronic interstitial ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... compare with any one of them the apse of Combray. Only, one day, turning out of a little street in some country town, I came upon three alley-ways that converged, and facing them an old wall, rubbed, worn, crumbling, and unusually high; with windows pierced in it far overhead and the same asymmetrical appearance as the apse of Combray. And at that moment I did not say to myself, as at Chartres I might have done or at Rheims, with what strength the religious feeling had been expressed in its construction, but instinctively I ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... gamming with the boat's crew, the deck was crowded with blacks of both sexes. He made his way to the yam sacks lashed abaft the mizzenmast and got his bottle. Just before he drank, with a shred of caution, he cast a glance behind him. Near him stood a harmless Mary, middle-aged, fat, squat, asymmetrical, unlovely, a sucking child of two years astride her hip and taking nourishment. Surely no harm was to be apprehended there. Furthermore, she was patently a weaponless Mary, for she wore no stitch of clothing that otherwise ...
— Jerry of the Islands • Jack London

... limb. The term pre-caval vein is sometimes used for superior cava. The attention, of the student is called to the small azygos vein (az.) running into the right vena cava superior, and forming the only asymmetrical (not-balancing) feature of the veins in front of the heart; it brings blood back from the ribs of the thorax wall, and is of interest mainly because it answers to an enormous main vessel, the right post-cardinal sinus, in fishes. There are spermatic arteries and veins ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells



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