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affine transformations

affine transformations is the plural of affine transformation.

Meaning of affine transformation

Noun

affine transformation (plural affine transformations)

  1. A geometric transformation that preserves lines and parallelism, but in general not lengths or angles; (more formally) an automorphism of an affine space: a mapping of an affine space onto itself that preserves both the dimension of any affine subspace and the ratio of the lengths of any pair of parallel line segments.
    • An affine transformation does not in general preserve angles between lines or distances between points, but it does preserve ratios of distances between points lying on a straight line.
    Synonyms:
    affinity

Questions about affine transformations

What is affine transformations the plural of?
Affine transformations is the plural of affine transformation.

Words near affine transformations in the dictionary

  1. affine space
  2. affine spaces
  3. affine span
  4. affine spans
  5. affine transformation
  6. affine transformations
  7. affine varieties
  8. affine variety
  9. affined
  10. affinely
  11. affinely independent

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