Usually means: Structure mirroring concepts or themes.
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  1. chiastic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. chiastic: Collins English Dictionary
  3. chiastic: Wordnik
  4. chiastic: Wiktionary
  5. chiastic: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. chiastic: Dictionary.com
  7. chiastic: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  8. Chiastic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. chiastic: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chiastic)

▸ adjective:  Pertaining to chiasmus.
▸ adjective:  (by extension) Pertaining to the position of two things relative to one another.

Similar:
chiasmic, chiasmal, chiasmatic, optochiasmatic, chasmatical, schismic, dichasial, chiromantic, chasmogamic, antichaotic, more...

Opposite:
anti-chiastic

Phrases:
Chiastic structure, Chiastic Slide, more...

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Similar:
chiasmic, chiasmal, chiasmatic, optochiasmatic, chasmatical, schismic, dichasial, chiromantic, chasmogamic, antichaotic, more...

Opposite:
anti-chiastic

Phrases:
Chiastic structure, Chiastic Slide, more...



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