glide reflection
glide reflection noun: a transformation consisting of a reflection followed by a translation along the same line.
Noun
glide reflection (countable and uncountable, plural glide reflections)
- A transformation consisting of a reflection followed by a translation along the same line.
- Thus every function of the form eⁱᵃz + c is the composition of a translation with a reflection and so it is a glide reflection.1993, Saul Stahl, The Poincaré Half-plane: A Gateway to Modern Geometry, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 136
- That turns out to have one small spaceship, moving diagonally up and left at c/14 with period 14 (glide reflection at generation 7):1995 November 12, Rich Holmes, “Totalistic spaceships”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
- Synonyms:
- transflection
Synonyms of glide reflection
Forms of glide reflection
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Questions about glide reflection
- What does glide reflection mean?
- Glide reflection means a transformation consisting of a reflection followed by a translation along the same line.
- What part of speech is glide reflection?
- Glide reflection is a noun.
- What is the plural of glide reflection?
- The plural of glide reflection is glide reflections.
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