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glide reflections

glide reflections is the plural of glide reflection.

Meaning of glide reflection

Noun

glide reflection (countable and uncountable, plural glide reflections)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    transflection

Questions about glide reflections

What is glide reflections the plural of?
Glide reflections is the plural of glide reflection.

Words near glide reflections in the dictionary

  1. glide path
  2. glide paths
  3. glide ratio
  4. glide ratios
  5. glide reflection
  6. glide reflections
  7. glide slope
  8. glide slopes
  9. glide time
  10. glided
  11. glideless

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