SYMMETRICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does symmetrically mean? 

• SYMMETRICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb SYMMETRICALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a symmetrical manner

  Familiarity information: SYMMETRICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYMMETRICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a symmetrical manner

Context example:

they were symmetrically arranged

Antonym:

asymmetrically (in an asymmetrical manner)

Pertainym:

symmetrical (having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts)

 Context examples 

This shell is also remarkable as it is very symmetrically round and also remarkably thin.

(Ageing Star Blows Off Smoky Bubble, ESO)

The response is characterized by the infant's arms symmetrically spreading out to the side and then back to the midline, and involuntarily flexion of the fingers and toes.

(Moro Reflex, NCI Thesaurus)

It was impossible to resist kissing Jip, when she held him up to me for that purpose, putting her own bright, rosy little mouth into kissing form, as she directed the operation, which she insisted should be performed symmetrically, on the centre of his nose.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was no more the withered limb of eld than my own; it was a rounded supple member, with smooth fingers, symmetrically turned; a broad ring flashed on the little finger, and stooping forward, I looked at it, and saw a gem I had seen a hundred times before.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)