Symmetry

Symmetry

In everyday life, symmetry refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance. In mathematics, the term has a more precise definition and is usually used to refer to an object that is invariant under some transformations, such as translation, reflection, rotation, or scaling. Although these two meanings of the word can sometimes be told apart, they are intricately related, and hence are discussed together in this article.

Symmetry (physics)

A symmetry of a physical system is a physical or mathematical feature of the system that is preserved or remains unchanged under some transformation.

symmetry

Noun

1. Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
2. The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.