Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-SYM'ME-TRY
A-SYM'ME-TRAL, or A-SYM-MET'RIC-ALAS'YMP-TOTE
A-SYM'ME-TRY, n. [Gr. α privative and συμμετρια, symmetry, of συν, with, and μετρεω; to measure.]
The want of proportion between the parts of a thing. It is also used in mathematics for incommensurability, when between two quantities there is no common measure. – Johnson.
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