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isometry

DEFINITIONS OF: isometry

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n equality of measure (e.g., equality of height above sea level or equality of loudness etc.)

Type of:
equality
the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status

n equality of elevation above sea level

Type of:
elevation
distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level)

n a one-to-one mapping of one metric space into another metric space that preserves the distances between each pair of points

“the isometries of the cube”
Type of:
function, map, mapping, mathematical function, single-valued function
(mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)

n the growth rates in different parts of a growing organism are the same

Type of:
growth rate, rate of growth
the rate of increase in size per unit time
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