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Conformative vs Conformal - What's the difference?

conformative | conformal |

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 ----

    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