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
The universe is dissymmetrical; for, placing before a mirror the group of bodies which compose the solar system with their proper movement, we obtain in the mirror an image not superposable on the reality.
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
Pasteur found that the paratartrates were not only dissymmetrical, but that they possessed two forms of dissymmetry.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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
