How do you pronounce symmetry?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɪm.ɪ.tɹi/.

symmetry

/ˈsɪm.ɪ.tɹi/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English

Syllables: sym-me-try
IPA: /ˈsɪm.ɪ.tɹi/

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Meaning

noun

Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry."

Etymology

From Latin symmetria, from Ancient Greek συμμετρία (summetría), from σύμμετρος (súmmetros, “symmetrical”), from σύν (sún, “with”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”). By surface analysis, sym- + -metry.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: symmetria, συμμετρία

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈsɪm.ɪ.tɹi/
British English: /ˈsɪm.ɪ.tɹaɪ/

Usage

Inflected Forms

symmetries (plural)

Derived Forms

antisymmetry bisymmetry centrosymmetry dissymmetry eigensymmetry hypersymmetry monosymmetry persymmetry polysymmetry presymmetry pseudosymmetry quasisymmetry

Phrases

axis of symmetry bilateral symmetry center of symmetry centre of symmetry CPT symmetry information symmetry Lorentz symmetry mirror symmetry

Frequently Paired Words

asymmetric asymmetry symmetric symmetrophobia

Synonyms

isotropy symmetricalness correspondence balance proportion

Rhymes With

asymmetry altimetry dissymmetry