CONFORMAL


Meaning of CONFORMAL in English

■ adjective (of a map) preserving the correct angles between directions within small areas, though distorting distances.

Derivatives

~ly adverb

Origin

C17 (in the sense 'conformable'): from late L. ~is , from con- 'together' + formalis 'formal'.

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