Symmetric

Word SYMMETRIC
Character 9
Hyphenation sym met ric
Pronunciations /sɪˈmɛtɹɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Symmetric"

What do we mean by symmetric?

Symmetrical.

Of a relation R on a set S, such that xRy if and only if yRx for all members x and y of S (that is, if the relation holds between any element and a second, it also holds between the second and the first).

Using the same key (or keys that are trivially related) for both encryption and decryption.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Symmetric

The word "symmetric" in example sentences

It's the belief in symmetric fluctuations that drives the focus on policy rules rather than policy events. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It shows how we human beings see the objects around us in symmetric shapes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This phenomenon, of nature being non-mirror symmetric, is known as CP violation, and rocked the physics world when it was discovered experimentally in the 60’s. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One contained a description of the solutions that I argued, from an economic standpoint, represented dynamic equilibrium outcomes in symmetric noncooperative games and in dominant-player games (International Economic ❋ Unknown (2005)

First, Delta One has what mathematicians call a symmetric payoff profile. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If such a group is given and held fast, then a figure in space is called symmetric if each automorphism of the group leaves it unchanged. ❋ SALOMON BOCHNER (1968)

Our WAN op positions, what's known as symmetric performance, we have a box at either end of the network, and we get this incredible speedups.

The two leading types of encryption are private key (also called symmetric key) cryptography and public key cryptography. ❋ Frank Ohlhorst (2010)

Aren't you reading "symmetric" into what Brad wrote? ❋ Unknown (2009)

I like how this turned out, with the lights and the way they are kind of symmetric and framed by all the gear. ❋ Unknown (2006)

As the generations pass by, it is rather obvious that the barycenter will drift in a nonrandom direction if the differentials are not "symmetric" around it. ❋ James F. McGrath (2008)

But from that claim, it does not follow that the interdependence relation is "symmetric," as though each depends on the other in exactly the same way, such that there is no order of precedence between them. ❋ Mike L (2007)

So now the teams were no longer 'symmetric' in terms of 'fairness' but the participants thought it was cool. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In this, preconscious/subconscious thought is characterised as 'symmetric': objects present themselves in certain 'sets' that are not the same as those we use in ordinary practical discrimination (where we need to know what the differences are between objects so that we can act appropriately and successfully in relation to them). ❋ Unknown (2005)

And this prompts some thoughts on what a translator of poetry might be about and whether it is absolutely true that poetry perishes in translation: if a translator catches the music not of the words, which is impossible to reproduce, but of the 'symmetric' complexes of image and feeling, what emerges is still poetry. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Other than the odd "symmetric" constraint I almost never use the ribbon. do you want me to twist my head when i dock ribbon to left to read toolbar classes, thats the monkey biznes ❋ Unknown (2010)

Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the "The Black Swan," said bonuses to financial executives and traders should be "symmetric" with their performance to solve the problem of overconfidence in global markets. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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