similarity

Etymology

From French similarité. Morphologically similar + -ity

noun

  1. Closeness of appearance to something else.
  2. (philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.
  3. (mathematics) A transformation that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
  4. (mathematics, linear algebra) The property of two matrices being similar.

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