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* It may refer to an object which has balanced proportions, and the beauty of form arising from those balanced proportions, notably a face, or an animal, e.g a tiger, as in the poem by [[William Blake]] (1757–1827):
* It may refer to an object which has balanced proportions, and the beauty of form arising from those balanced proportions, notably a face, or an animal, e.g a tiger, as in the poem by [[William Blake]] (1757–1827):
TIGER, tiger, burning bright
TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
* It may refer to the property of being mathematically symmetrical, especially relating to a correspondence in size, shape, and relative position of parts on opposite sides of a dividing line or median plane or about a center or axis; sometimes the term [[bilateral symmetry]] is used in this context.
* It may refer to the property of being mathematically symmetrical, especially relating to a correspondence in size, shape, and relative position of parts on opposite sides of a dividing line or median plane or about a center or axis; sometimes the term [[bilateral symmetry]] is used in this context.