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similarity

noun

  1. idea in geometry
  2. psychological proximity of two mental representations
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/ / /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ə.ti/ / /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/

noun

Etymology: From French similarité. Morphologically similar + -ity

  1. Closeness of appearance to something else.
  2. The relation of sharing properties.

    Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all.

  3. A transformation (of a Euclidean space) that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
  4. The property of two matrices being similar.