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Homothety vs Homothet - What's the difference?

homothety | homothet |

As nouns the difference between homothety and homothet

is that homothety is an isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point while homothet is homothecy.

homothety

English

Noun

(homotheties) (Homothetic transformation)
  • (mathematics) an isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point

    • Synonyms

    * homothecy

    Translations

    (scaling transformation) * Italian: (trans-mid) * Polish: (trans-bottom)

    homothet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • homothecy