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Definition of Symmetrise
1. Verb. Make symmetric. "Symmetrized waves"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Symmetry, Symmetry, Symmetry, Symmetry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Symmetrise
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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