English Explanatory Dictionary

antisymmetry

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The condition of being antisymmetric.
  2. A theory of syntactic linearization, proposing that hierarchical structure in natural language maps universally onto a particular surface linearization, namely specifier-head-complement branching order.

Word forms

antisymmetry antisymmetries

Etymology

From anti- + symmetry.

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