ISOMETRY


Meaning of ISOMETRY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ī-ˈsä-mə-trē ]

noun

( plural -tries )

Date: 1881

: a mapping of a metric space onto another or onto itself so that the distance between any two points in the original space is the same as the distance between their images in the second space

rotation and translation are isometries of the plane

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.