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Symmetries describe aspects of an object that do not change when it is flipped, rotated or otherwise transformed.

From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2022

The dancers appear as more mature but humorously flawed men and women in "Fearful Symmetries."

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2015

"Fluid Symmetries" is Heim speculating on a science-fiction adventure.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2015

Jeanette WintersonHeaven knows Jeanette Winterson has had her literary ups and downs – Gut Symmetries or The PowerBook, anyone?

From The Guardian • Jul. 19, 2011

By Arithmetike, the charges of Buildinges are summed together: the measures are expressed, and the hard questions of Symmetries, are by Geometricall Meanes and Methods discoursed on. &c.

From The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara by Dee, John