similarity
noun
- idea in geometry
- psychological proximity of two mental representations
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/ / /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ə.ti/ / /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/
noun
Etymology: From French similarité. Morphologically similar + -ity
- Closeness of appearance to something else.
- The relation of sharing properties.
“Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all.”
- A transformation (of a Euclidean space) that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
- The property of two matrices being similar.