The Collaborative International Dictionary
Similar \Sim"i*lar\, a. [F. similaire, fr. L. similis like, similar. See Same, a., and cf. Simulate.]
Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.
Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness.
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Homogenous; uniform. [R.]
--Boyle.Similar figures (Geom.), figures which differ from each other only in magnitude, being made up of the same number of like parts similarly situated.
Similar rectilineal figures, such as have their several angles respectively equal, each to each, and their sides about the equal angles proportional.
Similar solids, such as are contained by the same number of similar planes, similarly situated, and having like inclination to one another.
Usage examples of "similar figures".
Irene and any number of buxom nymphs and centaur fillies had similar figures?
But there are several of these clumsy figures with the same equipment at Tassili, and very similar figures have also been found on rock faces in the USA, in the Tulare region of California.
Two similar figures came out of the forest behind the first, all closing on the millipede.
There were at least two dozen quite similar figures within a short distance of her, gawking at the scenery while trying to stay out of the way of the big spenders.
The walls were slightly concave and paneled in a shimmering material decorated with squares and similar figures, all in shades of the same muted blue and all distorted by the concave topography.
He recalled starting to speak to the three young women his flashlight had revealed, then he'd been startled into silence by the sudden awareness that many more similar figures filled the darkness all around him.
In the air far to the left were three tiny dots, which might be similar figures approaching.
Snocles ferried uniformed and parka-clad figures up and down the streets, and similar figures wandered between the houses, trying to look as if they were patrolling something.
Many folktales of the time center on similar figures, and there is no reason to give one particular story credence over any of the others.
Tapping various figures in Stratton's income column, he pointed to similar figures on the other sheet.
It was not so very long ago that he would have felt compelled to launch into an exhausting comparison of similar figures of speech, much to the frustration of his Captain!