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Equality of elevation above sea level
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isometry
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In mathematics , an isometry (or congruence , or congruent transformation ) is a distance -preserving injective map between metric spaces . "We shall find it convenient to use the word transformation in the special sense of a one-to-one correspondence P ...
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n. the growth rates in different parts of a growing organism are the same 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" equality of elevation above ...
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n. (context mathematics English) 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1941, from Greek isometria "equality of measure," from iso- (see iso- ) + metria "a measuring" (see -metry ).