ISOMETRY


Meaning of ISOMETRY in English

/uy som"i tree/ , n.

1. equality of measure.

2. Biol. equal growth rates in two parts of a developing organism.

3. Geog. equality with respect to height above sea level.

4. Math. 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.

[ 1940-45; isometría. See ISO-, -METRY ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .