01 a. Wanting in symmetry, or due proportion of parts.
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Wanting in symmetry, or due proportion of parts.
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Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ in number. See Symmetry.(Biol.) See: Symmetry
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Being without symmetry of chemical structure or relation; as, an unsymmetrical carbon atom.(Chem.)
Phrases & compounds
Unsymmetrical carbon atom —
one which is united at once to four different atoms or radicals. This condition usually occasions physical isomerism, with the attendant action on polarized light.