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Conformal

//kənˈfɔːməl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That conforms, especially to the shape of something.

    "Some are realizable in practical computational times; others giving ‘more conformal’ 3D dose distributions take longer and some invoke technology which is not readily available, such as intensity-modulated fields."

  2. 2
    That preserves angles between intersecting curves.

    "1991 [Elsevier Science], Roland Schinzinger, Patricio A. A. Laura, Conformal Mapping: Methods and Applications, 2003, Dover, page 508, This would have been tantamount to a conformal transformation."

  3. 3
    That preserves relative angles over small scales, at all but a limited number of distinct points.

    "On conformal map projections, the scale depends on location only and not direction."

Etymology

From conform + -al.

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