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Question: What is Point Symmetry ?

Answer:

Consider a cuboid with a small cube cut out of a pair of opposite corners. This modified block has no axis of rotational symmetry or plane of symmetry, but it has symmetry about its center O. For every point P on the block there is another point P' such that O is the mid-point of PP'. This kind of symmetry is called point symmetry.

A two-dimensional object can only have point symmetry when it has rotational symmetry about its center of even order.

Example of a Point Symmetry: