antisymmetric

antisymmetric
/an'tee si me"trik, an'tuy-/, adj. Math.
noting a relation in which one element's dependence on a second implies that the second element is not dependent on the first, as the relation "greater than."
Also, antisymmetrical.
[1920-25; ANTI- + SYMMETRIC]

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