dissymmetry
noun
absence or lack of symmetry.
dissymmetrical
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a word derived from
dissymmetry.
Example Sentences
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This may account for the fact that all living things are essentially dissymmetrical, more right-handed than lefthanded.
From Time Magazine Archive
Natural dissymmetrical substances--gum, sugar, tartaric and malic acids, quinine, strychnine, essence of turpentine, and the like--may be and are employed in forming new compounds which remain dissymmetrical though they are artificially prepared.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Pasteur pointed out that all mineral substances--that is, all the natural products not due to living energy--have a superposable image and are, therefore, not dissymmetrical.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
It can manufacture, in its turn, new dissymmetrical substances which add to or take away from its energy.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Even the motion of solar light is dissymmetrical.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
