单词 | isometry |
释义 | isometry[ ahy-som-i-tree ] / aɪˈsɒm ɪ tri / nounequality of measure. Biology. equal growth rates in two parts of a developing organism. Geography. equality with respect to height above sea level. Mathematics. a function from one metric space onto a second metric space having the property that the distance between two points in the first space is equal to the distance between the image points in the second space. Origin of isometryFrom the Greek word isometría, dating back to 1940–45. See iso-, -metry Words nearby isometryisometric exercise, isometric period of cardiac cycle, isometrics, isometric scale, isometropia, isometry, isomorph, isomorphic, isomorphic response, isomorphism, isomorphous Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for isometryisometry / (aɪˈsɒmɪtrɪ) / nounmaths rigid motion of a plane or space such that the distance between any two points before and after this motion is unaltered equality of height above sea level Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Scientific definitions for isometryisometry [ ī-sŏm′ĭ-trē ] Equality of measure. Equality of elevation above sea level. A function between two metric spaces (such as two coordinate systems) which preserves distances. A rotation or translation in a plane is an isometry, since the distances between two points on the plane remain the same after the rotation or translation. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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