In geometry, circular symmetry is a type of continuous symmetry for a planar object that can be rotated by any arbitrary angle and map onto itself. Rotational...

about which the cone has a circular symmetry. In common usage in elementary geometry, cones are assumed to be right circular, i.e., with a circle base...

an axis. The main types of axial symmetry are reflection symmetry and rotational symmetry (including circular symmetry for plane figures). For example...

continuous symmetry is an intuitive idea corresponding to the concept of viewing some symmetries as motions, as opposed to discrete symmetry, e.g. reflection...

and the center of one face. Rotational symmetry with respect to any angle is, in two dimensions, circular symmetry. The fundamental domain is a half-line...

a rare circular symmetry in shape, nicknamed Teleios (Greek: τέλειος "perfect"). It has a radius of 3.3 parsecs. It is one of the most circular known supernova...

symmetry. Equivalently, a bicone is the surface created by joining two congruent right circular cones at their bases. A bicone has circular symmetry and...

words, an ellipsoid with two equal semi-diameters. A spheroid has circular symmetry. If the ellipse is rotated about its major axis, the result is a prolate...

Circular symmetry of complex random variables is a common assumption used in the field of wireless communication. A typical example of a circular symmetric...

Greek letter sigma. When viewed down the bond axis, a σ MO has a circular symmetry, hence resembling a similarly sounding "s" atomic orbital. Typically...

line is gauge fixing. Drawing the line spoils the gauge symmetry, i.e., the circular symmetry U(1) of the cross section at each point of the rod. The...

Finite spherical symmetry groups are also called point groups in three dimensions. There are five fundamental symmetry classes which have triangular fundamental...

or open disk of radius R is πR2 (see area of a disk). The disk has circular symmetry. The open disk and the closed disk are not topologically equivalent...

important question about the shape of the double-clad fiber; a fiber with circular symmetry seems to be the worst possible design. The design should allow the...

width" may be preferred in applications where the beam does not have circular symmetry. Siegman lists seven different measures of beam width, with some of...

expectation of a circularly symmetric complex random vector is either zero or it is not defined.: p. 500  The pseudo-covariance matrix of a circularly symmetric...

specific incident geometry (say, Ω i {\displaystyle \Omega _{i}} ). Circular symmetry All pages with titles containing anisotropy All pages with titles...

\\\end{aligned}}} where t is a parameter, owing to their rectangular or circular symmetry. These different coordinates and corresponding basis vectors represent...

circular symmetry can better be handled using the set of Laguerre-Gaussian modes introduced in the next section. Beam profiles which are circularly symmetric...

typical expanding circular pattern. Tree rings, as can be used for tree-ring dating Centered cube number Homoeoid Focaloid Circular symmetry Magic circle (mathematics)...

deviate either to one side of it or the other. In the plane, the circular symmetry of the system makes it convenient to use polar coordinates ( r , θ...

}}z_{1},z_{2}} are independent zero-mean complex normal samples with circular symmetry. Their complex variances are Var ⁡ | z i | = 2. {\displaystyle \operatorname...

polarization) have the same nominal phase velocity due to the fiber's circular symmetry. However tiny amounts of random birefringence in such a fiber, or...

core diameter is small compared to the size of the inner cladding. Circular symmetry in a double-clad fiber seems to be the worst solution for a fiber...

realistic fiber, however, there are random imperfections that break the circular symmetry, causing the two polarizations to propagate with different speeds...

configuration is minimized by relaxation towards a state exhibiting circular symmetry, resulting in the configuration illustrated schematically (for a two...

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a spontaneous process of symmetry breaking, by which a physical system in a symmetric state spontaneously ends up in an...

light intensity in the focal plane distributed as airy disk, and has circular symmetry. A 2-dimensional Gaussian function is a good approximation for airy...

exploit circular symmetry anymore, since the line between the source and an arbitrary point on the screen does not pass through the center of the circular object...

paraboloid is a quadric surface that has exactly one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry. The term "paraboloid" is derived from parabola, which refers...