According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.
SYMMETRICAL
harmonious, proportionate, symmetrical
(adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities
symmetrical, symmetric
(adjective) having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
symmetrical (comparative more symmetrical, superlative most symmetrical)
Exhibiting symmetry; having harmonious or proportionate arrangement of parts; having corresponding parts or relations.
Source: Wiktionary
Sym*met"ric*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. symétrique. See Symmetry.]
1. Involving or exhibiting symmetry; proportional in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: Having the organs or parts of one side correspponding with those of the other; having the parts in two or more series of organs the same in number; exhibiting a symmetry.See Symmetry, 2.
3. (Bot.) (a) Having an equal number of parts in the successive circles of floral organs; -- said of flowers. (b) Having a likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regular.
4. (Math.)
Definition: Having a common measure; commensurable. (b) Having corresponding parts or relations.
Note: A curve or a plane figure is symmetrical with respect to a given line, and a line, surface, or solid with respect to a plane, when for each point on one side of the line or plane there is a corresponding point on the other side, so situated that the line joining the two corresponding points is perpendicular to the line or plane and is bisectad by it. Two solids are symmetrical when they are so situate dwith the respect to an intervening plane that the several points of their surfaces thus correspond to each other in position and distance. In analysis, an expression is symmetrical with respect to several letters when any two of them may change places without affecting the expression; as, the expression a2b + ab2 + a2c + ac2 + b2c + bc2, is symmetrical with respect to the letters a, b, c.
– Sym*met"ric*al*ly, adv.
– Sym*met"ric*al*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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