(n.) A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; the union and conformity of the members of a work to the whole.
(n.) The law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity in form and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical.
(n.) Equality in the number of parts of the successive circles in a flower.
(n.) Likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regularity.
Example Sentences:
(1) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(2) Models with a C8-symmetry and D4-symmetry can be ruled out.
(3) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
(4) Subjects with high ocular-dominance scores (right- or left-dominant subjects) showed for the green stimulus asymmetric behavior, while subjects with low ocular-dominance scores showed a tendency toward symmetry in perception.
(5) The 3' end of the cell cycle regulated mRNA terminates immediately following the region of hyphenated dyad symmetry typical of most histone mRNAs, whereas the constitutively expressed mRNA has a 1798 nt non-translated trailer that contains the same region of hyphenated dyad symmetry but is polyadenylated.
(6) US clearly images the cartilaginous femoral head and enables accurate assessment of hip size, shape, and symmetry.
(7) Termination of sar RNA synthesis occurs after transcription of the first and second Ts of a TTTA sequence following a region of hyphenated dyad symmetry.
(8) In this paper, a CD study is reported on the reconstitution of horse heart myoglobin with protoheme XIII, a heme possessing true rotational symmetry about its alpha, gamma-meso axis.
(9) A significant symmetry (trochanteric-trochanteric or cervical-cervical) was found between the first and the second hip fractures (69 per cent).
(10) We discuss the role of symmetry operations in mode calculations and the relevance of these displacement vectors to the interpretation of linear dichroism measurements performed on the A- and B-DNA helix.
(11) This symmetry, with respect to the sign of the charge, indicates that discreteness-of-charge effects are not significant in determining the potential-sensitive phase partitioning of these probes in model membranes.
(12) In 14 patients with asymmetrical baseline VERs, hypercapnia caused improvement of symmetry in five, worsening in three, and no change in six.
(13) Using a symmetry argument it is shown that the critical internal pressure for the initiation of yielding of the envelope material has a non-uniform distribution and is significantly higher for the polar regions.
(14) (2) The four EF hands are arranged in two pairs with overall symmetry, 222.
(15) Three viruses (Ff, IKe, and If1) all have five-start helices with rotation angles of 36 degrees and axial translations of 16 A (Type I symmetry), and three other viruses (Pf1, Xf, and Pf3) all have one-start helices with rotation angles of approximately equal to 67 degrees and translations of approximately 3 A (Type II symmetry).
(16) This section was characterized by its axial rotation, deviation of its midpoint from the spinal axis, and area symmetry about the midpoint.
(17) These centres do not control the nature of the nystagmic movement that consists of a slow and a fast components, the combined movements of the right and left eyes, the direction of the nystagmus, the range and the nature marking the distribution of the maximal movement and of the most frequent movements during the action of the stimulus and the symmetry of the labyrinthine function.
(18) Taking advantage of structural symmetries may critically improve the convergence while refining the target molecule or its building blocks.
(19) As such, the finite size of the cellular membrane, as well as its precise symmetry, could not be incorporated into the previous studies.
(20) Similarly, the formation of spatial dissipative structures by coupling of a transport process with an interfacial reaction was investigated as a simple experimental example of symmetry breaking.
Unison
Definition:
(n.) Harmony; agreement; concord; union.
(n.) Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.
(n.) A single, unvaried.
(n.) Sounding alone.
(n.) Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant; unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in coincident sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We have hard clinical evidence that if NHS staff feel valued that results in a positive outcome for patients," says Christina McAnea, head of health at Unison.
(2) Dave Prentis, Unison's general secretary Fighting talk at long last.
(3) Due to this aspect the ability of this activity to work in unison with DNA polymerase molecules in the process of DNA repair synthesis was investigated.
(4) Wearing royal blue cloaks with pointed hoods, the boys line up beside the road in a small village just outside the city of Ségou, chanting in unison.
(5) The YouGov poll, commissioned by the health union Unison, follows reports that three cabinet ministers supported an editorial on the influential Conservative Home website last week describing the NHS bill as "potentially fatal to the Conservative party's electoral prospects".
(6) But by Dave Prentis, the general secretary of Unison.
(7) January 6, 2014 Updated at 10.30am GMT 10.13am GMT The public services union Unison, which represents thousands of Environment Agency workers, has accused the government of putting public safety at risk by cutting the organisation's budget.
(8) But it's also arrogance, the idea that the world could heal itself by thinking, in unison, like Brand.
(9) There is the Usdaw reception in the Hilton on Sunday, the Communication Workers Union drinks on Monday and a Unison bash on Tuesday.
(10) "Millions of public sector workers will be left out in the cold," said Dave Prentis, leader of Unison.
(11) Mike Jeram, national officer at the Unison union, which represents workers at E.ON, said: "This is a devastating blow.
(12) Becca Kirkpatrick is a community organiser and chairs Unison’s West Midlands community branch.
(13) More than 1.1 million Unison workers, from healthcare assistants to paramedics and dinner ladies, could join walkouts on 30 November in a dispute over reforms to public sector pensions for health, education, local government and civil service employees.
(14) "Private health already has a small role in the NHS [providing 4% of services], but we don't want it to grow," said Karen Jennings a spokeswoman for Unison, the public services union.
(15) Around 43,000 Unison members – 28,000 as Labour party members in their own right and a further 15,000 who have signed up as registered supporters – can vote in the contest.
(16) Jessica Khoshooee (Unison) Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan • To complement the government’s proposed reforms, would it not be only fair for them to extend the legislation to shareholders in public companies?
(17) The clinical results indicated that Dispersalloy, Indiloy, a high-copper blend by Syntex, Cluster, and Unison had the least marginal failure.
(18) He wrote: "It is time for British politicians to say it loud and clear and in unison: we need bankers my friends.
(19) The only party that can win for working people is a strong and united Labour party.” The signatories to the statement included the general secretaries of Unite, Unison, the GMB and Ucatt.
(20) A memorandum of understanding between the college and Unison, made public at the insistence of the education committee, states that the £270 fee would be split 50-50 between the college and Unison.