The word "symmetrical" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a shape, arrangement, or pattern that is the same on both sides when it is divided down the middle. For example, you could say, "The butterfly's wings were symmetrical in shape."
When Simi begins to palpate Mary's joints, she finds her stride, spilling out technical terms as she goes: symmetrical deformity; ulnar deviation at the MCP joint; rheumatoid nodules, widespread over all joints; Z-thumb deformity; fixed flexion deformity on all fingers; swan neck deformity… The list seems endless, and Karan is impressed, needing to prompt Simi only once or twice.
In Breaking the Spell, Dennett quotes Pascal Boyer, who suggests that music is a supernormal stimulus which mimics and heightens the effects of speech, and that we make symmetrical patterns with textiles, buildings, gadgets to deliberately "overstimulate [our] visual cortex".
Laying it out would have been far from easy - formal gardens tend to be level and symmetrical, but the paths at Drummond swoop up and down, adding a thrill to the experience.
The game obviously fulfils the "bright colours, symmetrical shapes and simple sounds" elements of the supernormal stimulus theory.
Rather, they want a different Europe: one that is more flexible and more symmetrical, less focused on austerity and more focused on investment in the real economy.
For Alexandrova, an "emotionally inexpressive face, no matter how regular or symmetrical the features, cannot be beautiful".
The "digital crown" is positioned off to one side and closer to the screen than the back, rather than being symmetrical like a winding wheel on a traditional watch.
While stockpiles in the thousands are obviously overkill, I would rather not go back to the days of large-scale symmetrical warfare, the kind of which destroys continents and nations.
The range is also not symmetrical, suggesting the risk of failure is greater than the hope of success.
But Dr Smalley's discovery turned out to be much more important for the explosion of research it prompted into the properties of structures at the smallest end of the scale.Related items LAST WORD: Nanotechnology's unhappy fatherMar 11th 2004The buckyball was merely the first in a whole new family of fullerenes, a group of symmetrical carbon-cage molecules.
The bank has a choice of losing face by moving to a symmetrical target or losing face by missing a poorly specified goal.In a recent speech in Brussels, Mr Trichet expressed satisfaction that the ECB had kept inflation to an average of 2.1% in its first decade.
