As adjectives the difference between conformative and conformal
is that conformative is (nonstandard) tending to conform; conforming while conformal is such that it conforms, especially that matches the shape of something.
conformative
English
Adjective
(
en adjective)
(nonstandard) Tending to conform; conforming.
(nonstandard) Of or pertaining to a conformation.
Quotations
* 1999: Phillip K. Wilson, Surgery, Skin And Syphilis: Daniel Turner's London (1667-1741)
*: the impressed immaterial ‘species’ from the mother’s imagination became expressed as a result of the imagination’s conformative power.
* 2000: Martha Joynt Kumar (ed.), Lawrence R. Jacobs (ed.), Robert Y. Shapiro, Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the Twenty-first Century
*: The immediate prospects for transformational (or conformative ) leadership in the presidency do not at present appear auspicious.
* 2004: Paul Spencer, The Samburu: A Study in Geocentracy
*: The social structure of the two conformative societies is more clearly defined: individual enterprise and competition are more discernible in the other two
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conformal
English
Adjective
(
en adjective)
Such that it conforms, especially that matches the shape of something.
(maths) Such that all angles between intersecting curves remain unchanged.
(cartography) Of a map projection, preserving relative angles over small scales, except at a limited number of distinct points. On such map projections the scale depends only location but not direction. Also referred to as orthomorphic.
Antonyms
* (maths) disformal
Derived terms
(Derived terms)
* conformal anomaly
* conformal array
* conformal chart
* conformal coating
* conformal connection
* conformal equivalence
* conformal family
* conformal field theory
* conformal film
* conformal fuel tank
* conformal geometry
* conformal gravity
* conformal Killing equation
* conformal latitude
* conformal map
* conformal map projection
* conformal mapping
* conformal optics
* conformal projection
* conformal reflection chart
* conformal symmetry
* conformal tensor
* conformal transformation