isometry

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Noun

isometry (plural isometries)

1. (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.

Related terms

• isometric
• isometer

Translations

• French: isométrie
• German: Isometrie
• Italian: isometria
• Portuguese: isometria
• Spanish: isometría

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