adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
perfectly
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Its sides were moulded in a swirling, perfectly symmetrical design.
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First, the Universe appears perfectly symmetrical in the ways it enforces its laws.
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The house move was a perfectly symmetrical operation: lucid, elegant.
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The perfectly symmetrical large football was crowned by a smaller one: his head.
■ NOUN
shape
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B bit it and spoiled its smooth, symmetrical shape somewhat.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Palladio built the Villa Rotunda following a symmetrical plan.
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The columns on either side of the door were perfectly symmetrical .
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The leaves of most trees are symmetrical in shape.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a result, he was able to create a symmetrical , monumental composition of great power.
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So, it is a myth that conversational discourse is inevitably symmetrical .
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The glassy texture is the result of lack of regular, symmetrical order in the arrangement of atoms.
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There are usually very many muscles - up to 2000 or so in some Lepidopteran larvae - and the system is bilaterally symmetrical .
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Thus, any change in a gene will tend to make the ornament smaller, less symmetrical , or less colorful.
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When leafless, their bark is pretty, and the symmetrical structure of the branches has a classical quality.
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With pinch and cartridge pleat tape you will need to balance your end spaces to make your pleating symmetrical on both curtains.