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Scaling vs Homothety - What's the difference?

scaling | homothety |

As nouns the difference between scaling and homothety

is that scaling is the removing of the scales of fish while homothety is an isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point.

As a verb scaling

is present participle of lang=en.

scaling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The removing of the scales of fish
  • The formation of a layer of scale on a surface
  • The removal of a layer of scale from a surface
  • The measurement of dimensions using a scale
  • (mathematics, physics) The expression of the terms of an equation using powers of nondimensional quantities

    • Anagrams

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    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)