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symmetrically en · ADV

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Etymology

Etymology tree English symmetry Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English symmetrical Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English symmetrically From symmetrical + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a symmetrical manner; so as to show symmetry
   • The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards, which may result in the accumulation of an unidentified leftness determinant, which flows into the node symmetrically, on the left side of the node. 2006, Manfred Schliwa, Molecular Motors, page 359:
   • We have the ATLANTIC OCEAN running down the center of our grid today and, on either side of the “Pond,” Mr. Trudeau has managed to symmetrically place the British and American English equivalents for four words. 2017 February 8, Deb Amlen, “Monumental Work”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2017:
   • diagonals symmetrically intermediate between the horizontal axes, terminate in the interaxal basal angles 1838, The American Journal of Science:

Forms

Antonyms

asymmetrically

Deriveds

pseudosymmetrically · nonsymmetrically · centrosymmetrically

Translations (13)

hu szimmetrikusan (in a symmetrical manner) · ru симметри́чно (in a symmetrical manner) · lt simetriškai (in a symmetrical manner) · fi symmetrisesti (in a symmetrical manner) · fr symétriquement (in a symmetrical manner) · ca simètricament (in a symmetrical manner) · mt simmetrikament (in a symmetrical manner) · es simétricamente (in a symmetrical manner) · el συμμετρικά (in a symmetrical manner) · pl symetrycznie (in a symmetrical manner) · nl symmetrisch (in a symmetrical manner) · pt simetricamente (in a symmetrical manner) · gl simetricamente (in a symmetrical manner)