unsymmetrically
- a word derived from symmetrical.
Example Sentences
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From the rear it did not look right; it was lopsided, with a goodish-sized object hung unsymmetrically under its right wing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Now when we have a spinning body, say a top, overloaded on one side so that gravity acts on it unsymmetrically, what happens?
From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir
Their clerestory contains plain and uninteresting three-light windows, which are, moreover, unsymmetrically placed with regard to the arches beneath them.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Palmer, G. H. (George Henry)
E is due to transient induction in horizontal soft iron unsymmetrically placed with regard to the compass.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
According to Armstrong, anthracene behaves unsymmetrically towards substituents, and hence one lateral ring differs from the other; he represents the molecule as consisting of one centric ring, the remaining medial and lateral ring being ethenoid.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various