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Regularity vs Symmetry - What's the difference?

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Regularity is a related term of symmetry.


In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between regularity and symmetry

is that regularity is (uncountable) the condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline while symmetry is (uncountable) the satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.

As nouns the difference between regularity and symmetry

is that regularity is (uncountable) the condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline while symmetry is exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.

regularity

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline
  • I have been watching that show with regularity .
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=For Chelsea coach Andre Villas-Boas, this was his most sobering moment in the Premier League and he looked stunned on the sidelines at the regularity with which Chelsea's defence was exposed.}}
  • (countable) A particular regular occurrence
  • Antonyms

    * irregularity

    symmetry

    Noun

    (symmetries)
  • Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
  • (uncountable) The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
  • , chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry .}}

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