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isometry en · NOUN

Etymology

From New Latin isometria, from Ancient Greek ἰσομετρία (isometría), from ἰσο- (iso-) + -μετρία (-metría), from ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) and μέτρον (métron, “measurement”) + -ια (-ia, “-y”). Equivalent to iso- + -metry.

Meanings

1. 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.
   • Isometry is to metric spaces what isomorphism is to groups.

Forms

Deriveds

anisometry · quasiisometry

Relateds

isometer · isometric · isometrograph

Translations (12)

fr isométrie (A function) · it isometria (A function) · nl isometrie (A function) · la isometria (A function) · pt isometria (A function) · es isometría (A function) · fi isometria (A function) · de Isometrie (A function) · hu egybevágósági transzformáció (A function) · sv isometri (A function) · he איזומטריה (A function) · ca isometria (A function)