similar
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
similar
- Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803 ↗:
- So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- (mathematics) Of geometrical figures including triangles, squares, ellipses, arcs and more complex figures, having the same shape but possibly different size, rotational orientation, and position; in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional; such that one can be had from the other using a sequence of rotations, translations and scalings.
- (alike) different, unlike, dissimilar
- French: similaire, semblable
- German: ähnlich, vergleichbar
- Italian: simile, somigliante, rassomigliante
- Portuguese: parecido, semelhante, similar
- Russian: подо́бный
- Spanish: similar, semejante, parecido, parejo, equiparable
- Russian: подо́бный
- Spanish: semejante
similar (plural similars)
- That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.
- (homeopathy) A material that produces an effect that resembles the symptoms of a particular disease.
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