Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as symmetrical.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Symmetrical.

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  • adjective Symmetrical.
  • adjective set theory Of a relation R on a set S, such that xRy if and only if yRx for all members x and y of S (that is, if the relation holds between any element and a second, it also holds between the second and the first).
  • adjective cryptography Using the same key (or keys that are trivially related) for both encryption and decryption.

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  • adjective having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts

Etymologies

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From Latin symmetria from Ancient Greek συμμετρία (summetria).

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