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ISOMETRY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Equality of measure (e.g., equality of height above sea level or equality of loudness etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("isometry" is a kind of...):

equality (the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status)

Derivation:

isometric; isometrical (having equal dimensions or measurements)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Equality of elevation above sea level

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("isometry" is a kind of...):

elevation (distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level))

Derivation:

isometric (having equal dimensions or measurements)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A one-to-one mapping of one metric space into another metric space that preserves the distances between each pair of points

Example:

the isometries of the cube

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("isometry" is a kind of...):

function; map; mapping; mathematical function; single-valued function ((mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function))

Derivation:

isometric (related by an isometry)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The growth rates in different parts of a growing organism are the same

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("isometry" is a kind of...):

growth rate; rate of growth (the rate of increase in size per unit time)

Domain category:

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

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