Aug 25, 2012 · What is the appropriate usage of "symmetrical" and "symmetric" (using the geometrical adjectival definition of both terms)? Are they synonymous?

Dec 29, 2016 · The first point to note is that symmetric and symmetrical are effectively synonyms for most purposes (but as answers to the earlier indicate, the former has recently become far more common in technical contexts).

Sep 17, 2011 · I get that usually a- (or un-) and di- prefixes mean different things, e.g. uninterested and disinterested. However, both asymmetric and dissymmetric refer to the lack of symmetry (which the NOAD

Oct 31, 2015 · I know the word normal distribution. But what does a statistician call it when the curve of the distribution tails less steeply (ie falls more gradually) to the left or right?

Jun 2, 2016 · This usage makes sense in some cases, and doesn't seem unnecessarily verbose to me. For example, an ellipses may be symmetrical along the y-axis, whereas a circle would be perfectly symmetrical (about its origin). Describing this outside of math I might say "perfectly symmetrical" to emphasize that it doesn't have any limitations in symmetry, but of course …

Mar 27, 2017 · Palindrome /…/ noun a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as forward This excerpt is from the Oxford Dictionary of English, third edition, which was edited by Angus Stevenson. In the definition, a sequence refers to number chains. If you didn't want to be completely on the nose about it, you could work in the phrase mirror imag e to describe what …

Jan 3, 2017 · You claim, "Sentences 1–2 awkwardly pair the symmetrical concepts 'mutually', 'pairwise' and 'collectionwise' with the asymmetrical prepositions 'from' and 'of'." Yet we say A is different from or to B and B is different from or to A in a perfectly symmetric sense. And similarly, A is independent of B and B is independent of A.

Apr 13, 2016 · A longitudinal plane that divides the body of a bilaterally symmetrical animal into right and left sections. Since forward and backward movement at the intersection of the vertical planes is what you are describing, transverse or transversal may be a better choice, however when we describe vertical it is ambiguous whether we are describing a ...

Apr 17, 2012 · The number I am thinking of is 80808. This is a palindrome. However, it is more than a palindrome, because it can be flipped or mirrored and will still read the same way. Is there a word for this?

Salutation is the term used to describe the beginning of a letter or other correspondence. What is the term used for the closing of a letter? Here are some examples: Yours truly, Sincerely, Best wi...