[ad. Gr. ἀσυμμετρία, n. of quality f. ἀσύμμετρος: see SYMMETRY.]

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  1.  Math. The relation of two quantities that have no common measure, as 1 and √2; incommensurability. ? Obs.

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a. 1652.  J. Smith, Sel. Disc., 4. 100. Equality, proportion, symmetry and assymmetry of magnitudes.

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1675.  Collins, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men, II. 264. The method of shunning asymmetries mentioned in Des Cartes.

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1796.  in Hutton, Math. Dict., I. 162.

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  2.  Want of symmetry, defective correspondence between things or their parts, disproportion.

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1664.  Evelyn, Freart’s Archit., Ep. Ded. 8. The asymmetrie of our Buildings.

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1672.  J. Worthington, in Mede’s Wks., Introd. 32. There was an asymmetry and disproportion in the subservient Faculties.

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1877.  Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., viii. 530. Male Cephalopods are distinguished … by the asymmetry of their arms.

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