Word Meanings - DISSYMMETRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.
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- ABSENCE
1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law." - ASYMMETRY
Incommensurability. Barrow. (more info) 1. Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry. - DEFECTIONIST
One who advocates or encourages defection. - DEFECTUOSITY
Great imperfection. W. Montagu. - DEFECTIBILITY
Deficiency; imperfection. Ld. Digby. Jer. Taylor. - DEFECTIVE
Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied - DEFECTUOUS
Full of defects; imperfect. Barrow. - DEFECT
fail, be wanting; de- + facere to make, do. See Fact, Feat, and cf. 1. Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity. Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied. Davies. - DEFECTIOUS
Having defects; imperfect. "Some one defectious piece." Sir P. Sidney. - DEFECTIBLE
Liable to defect; imperfect. "A defectible understanding." Jer. Taylor. - SYMMETRY
The law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity in form and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical. Note: Bilateral symmetry, or - DEFECTION
Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding. "Defection and falling away from God." Sir W. Raleigh. The - INDEFECTIBLE
Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke. - DISSYMMETRY
Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry. - PSEUDO-SYMMETRY
A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite. - INDEFECTIBILITY
The quality of being indefectible. Barrow. - INDEFECTIVE
Not defective; perfect; complete. "Absolute, indefective obedience." South.