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| frame of reference | A set of axes to which positions and motions in a system can be referred. | ||||||||
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| symmetry | The property of being unchanged after some transformation. A square, for example, has a 4-sided rotational symmetry. It appears the same after it is rotated by 90 degrees. | symmetry breaking | |||||||
| symmetry breaking | In cosmology and particle physics, a state in which traces of an earlier symmetry may be discerned. A broken symmetry condition differs from chaos in that its parts can in theory be united in a symmetrical whole, like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. | asymmetry | symmetry | ||||||
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