• Isometry

    Origin

    From iso- and -metry.

    Noun

    isometry

    (plural isometries)
    1. (mathematics) 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 pre-images.
      • ''
    Isometry is to metric spaces what isomorphism is to groups.''

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