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homothecy
noun
(mathematics) an isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point.
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noun
(mathematics) an isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point.
“Successive applications of homotheties with coefficients k1 and k2 is either a homothety with coefficient k1k2, if the latter differs from 1, or a parallel translation, otherwise.”
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Successive applications of homotheties with coefficients k1 and k2 is either a homothety with coefficient k1k2, if the latter differs from 1, or a parallel translation, otherwise.
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