RADIAL ASYMMETRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radial asymmetry mean? 

• RADIAL ASYMMETRY (noun)
  The noun RADIAL ASYMMETRY has 1 sense:

1. the absence of symmetry about an axis

  Familiarity information: RADIAL ASYMMETRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADIAL ASYMMETRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The absence of symmetry about an axis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("radial asymmetry" is a kind of...):

asymmetry; dissymmetry; imbalance ((mathematics) a lack of symmetry)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "radial asymmetry"):

directionality; directivity (the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another)

Antonym:

radial symmetry (the property of symmetry about an axis)