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Relative proportion and harmony.

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Usage examples (37)
  • The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
  • Ceramics and Pottery Which principle of art is described by the term symmetry?
  • Others, again, have applied the term symmetry to the number of the parts of the flower, reserving the terms "regularity" or
  • "Faith" in symmetry is not faith when abstract ideas like symmetry lead to explanations of empirical data, lead to new discoveries.
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