The product of two homotheties with the same centre is a homothety with that centre.
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Homothety
Synonyms for "homothety" (5 found)
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Esperanto
1 entries- homotetio noun (scaling transformation)
French
1 entries- homothétie noun (scaling transformation)
Galician
1 entries- homotecia noun (scaling transformation)
German
1 entries- zentrische Streckung noun (scaling transformation)
Italian
1 entries- omotetia noun (scaling transformation)
Polish
2 entries- homotetia noun (scaling transformation)
- jednokładność noun (scaling transformation)
Portuguese
1 entries- homotetia noun (scaling transformation)
Spanish
1 entries- homotecia noun (scaling transformation)
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One cannot obtain all similarity mappings from products of homotheties alone, but they are necessary and basic to similarities.
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Since homotheties are determined by the fixed point, called the center of the homothety, and by the similitude ratio λ, we shall denote by h_(P,λ) the homothety with center P and similitude ratio λ.
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