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at changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of design. Shifting like the fragments of colored glass in the kaleidoscope. G. W. Cable.

A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.

attern (Arch.), an ornament for filling panels, copied from the folds of a piece of stuff symmetrically disposed.

A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts. Chaucer.

ng in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.

One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.

state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity.

Abnormally regular or symmetrical. Darwin.

The unsymmetrical hypothetical hydrocarbon radical, CH3.CH2.CH, analogous to ethylidene, and regarded as the type of certain derivatives of propane; -- called also propylidene.

Harmonic relation between parts, or between different things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment; symmetry; as, to be out of proportion. "Let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith." Rom. xii. 6.

Without proportion; unsymmetrical.

s arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere.

an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular building.

Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper.

ht lines do not intersect; a warped surface; as, the helicoid is a skew surface. -- Skew symmetrical determinant (Alg.), a determinant in which the elements in each column of the matrix are equal to the elements of the corresponding row of the matrix with the signs changed, as in (1), below. (1) 0 2 -3-2 0 53 -5 0 (2)…

Rounded like a sphere; sphere-shaped; hence, symmetrical; complete; perfect.

Any one of the several symmetrical segments arranged around the central axis and composing the body of a radiate anmal.

Commensurable; symmetrical. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Symmetrical.

stribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical.