These funds go by several names such as age-based allocation models, age-based funds or target-date funds, but they all are designed to assist the investor by investing in funds based on their age when they plan to retire. Age-Based Funds Vs. Lifestyle Funds. Age-based funds are normally set up as mutual funds.
radial symmetry. n. 1. (Biology) a type of structure of an organism or part of an organism in which a vertical cut through the axis in any of two or more planes produces two halves that are mirror images of each other. Compare bilateral symmetry.oun. 1. radial symmetry-the property of symmetry about an axis; the starfish illustrates radial symmetry. symmetricalness, symmetry, correspondence, balance - (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane.
The ellipse has two lines of symmetry, one along the major and one along the minor axis. The rectangle has two lines of symmetry, the perpendicular bisector of the longer sides, and the perpendicular bisector of the shorter sides. The circle has infinitely many lines of symmetry, any line going through the center. (Any diameter is a line of symmetry.) The parallelogram pictured has no lines of symmetry. Neither does the trapezoid. << back to Problem A1.