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conformal
a. 1 Such that it conforms, especially that matches the shape of something. 2 (context maths English) Such that all angles between intersecting curves remain unchanged. 3 (context cartography English) Of a map projection, preserving relative angles over small scales, except at a limited number of distinct points. On such map projections the scale depends only location but not direction. Also referred to as orthomorphic.
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Conformal
Conformal may refer to:
- Conformal map, in mathematics
- Conformal geometry, in mathematics
- Conformal group, in mathematics
- Conformal map projection, in cartography
- Conformal film on a surface
- Conformal fuel tanks on military aircraft
- Conformal coating in electronics
- Conformal hypergraph, in mathematics
- Conformal (software), in ASIC Software
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Conformal field theory in physics, such as:
- Boundary conformal field theory
- Coset conformal field theory
- Irrational conformal field theory
- Logarithmic conformal field theory
- Rational conformal field theory
Conformal (disambiguation)
Usage examples of "conformal".
Gullick turned away and walked over to another face in the form of an electronic Mercator conformal map.
All the pieces of hardware were labeled, with arrow-tipped lines pointing to them emitter array, interphase transition coils, virtual focus conformals.