Definition of Symmetrise

1. Verb. Make symmetric. "Symmetrized waves"

Exact synonyms: Symmetrize
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Symmetry, Symmetry, Symmetry, Symmetry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Symmetrise

symmetric group
symmetric groups
symmetric matrix
symmetric polynomial
symmetric polynomials
symmetrical
symmetrical balance
symmetrically
symmetricalness
symmetrician
symmetricians
symmetricity
symmetries
symmetrisation
symmetrisations
symmetrise (current term)
symmetrised
symmetrist
symmetrists
symmetrizability
symmetrizable
symmetrization
symmetrizations
symmetrize
symmetrized
symmetrizes
symmetrizing
symmetrons
symmetry
symmorphic

Literary usage of Symmetrise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"[< symmetrise + -ation.] The act or process of symmetrizing. ... Also spelled symmetrise. He would soon have supplied every deficiency, and symmetrized ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1856)
"The native tendency of the French intellect is to theorise and symmetrise— of the French temperament to move by fits and starts. Strange blending ! ..."

3. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1840)
"... experienced eye of that body they adorn and symmetrise ; glimpses, if not of the plan and dimensions, while, to the incoherent particles of historical ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"[< symmetrise + -ation.] The act or process of symmetrizing. ... Also spelled symmetrise. He would soon have supplied every deficiency, and symmetrized ..."

5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1856)
"The native tendency of the French intellect is to theorise and symmetrise— of the French temperament to move by fits and starts. Strange blending ! ..."

6. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1840)
"... experienced eye of that body they adorn and symmetrise ; glimpses, if not of the plan and dimensions, while, to the incoherent particles of historical ..."

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