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Definition of Asymmetric
1. Adjective. Characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components.
Also: Irregular
Similar to: Lopsided, Noninterchangeable, Unsymmetric, Unsymmetrical
Derivative terms: Asymmetry, Asymmetry
Antonyms: Symmetrical
Definition of Asymmetric
1. a. Incommensurable.
Definition of Asymmetric
1. Adjective. (geometry general) Of a shape, not symmetric. ¹
2. Adjective. (cryptography) Not involving a mutual exchange of keys between the sender and receiver. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Asymmetric
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Asymmetric
1. Not symmetrical; denoting a lack of symmetry between two or more like parts. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asymmetric
Literary usage of Asymmetric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stereochemistry by Alfred Walter Stewart (1907)
"THE STRUCTURAL CHARACTER OF THE asymmetric CARBON ATOM. A carbon atom is said to
be asymmetric when all the four groups to which it is attached differ from ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"A brief discussion of the more important attempts to effect partial asymmetric
syntheses follows: 1. The first serious attempt to effect a partial ..."
3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1898)
"Only the living organism with ill asymmetric tissues, or the asymmetric ...
Is the failure to synthesise single asymmetric compounds without the ..."
4. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik. Holleman (1920)
"Such a figure has no plane of symmetry, hence the name " asymmetric carbon atom."
It is thus possible to understand how one ..."
5. Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students by Julius Berend Cohen (1918)
"It depends upon the presence in the molecule of an even number of similar asymmetric
carbon atoms, that is to say, carbon atoms to each pair of which a ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"We thus arrive at the conclusion that the production of single asymmetric compounds,
or their isolation from the mixture of their ..."
7. Refraction and how to refract by James Thorington (1900)
"asymmetric astigmatism is the reverse of symmetric, and is, therefore, ...
Illustrating asymmetric Astigmatism. added together would not make 180 degrees, ..."
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