isometry
Etymology
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Etymology
From nl. isometria, from Ancient Greek ἰσομετρία, from ἰσο- + -μετρία, from ἴσος ("equal") and μέτρον ("measurement") + -ια ("-y").
Nounisometry (plural isometries)
- (mathematics) A function between metric spaces (or on a single metric space) having the property that the distance between two images is equal to the distance between their preimages.
- Isometry is to metric spaces what isomorphism is to groups.
- isometric
- isometer
- isometrograph
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