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ISOMETRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Equality of measure (e.g., equality of height above sea level or equality of loudness etc.)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("isometry" is a kind of...):
equality (the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status)
Derivation:
isometric; isometrical (having equal dimensions or measurements)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Equality of elevation above sea level
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("isometry" is a kind of...):
elevation (distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level))
Derivation:
isometric (having equal dimensions or measurements)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A one-to-one mapping of one metric space into another metric space that preserves the distances between each pair of points
Example:
the isometries of the cube
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("isometry" is a kind of...):
function; map; mapping; mathematical function; single-valued function ((mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function))
Derivation:
isometric (related by an isometry)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The growth rates in different parts of a growing organism are the same
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("isometry" is a kind of...):
growth rate; rate of growth (the rate of increase in size per unit time)
Domain category:
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
