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homothety vs mapping

mapping vs homothety

homothety and mapping both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
homothety Yes No No No
mapping Yes No No No
As nouns, mapping is a hypernym of homothety; that is, mapping is a word with a broader meaning than homothety:
  • homothety: (mathematics) an isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point.
  • mapping: (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)
Other hypernyms of homothety include function, map, mathematical function, single-valued function.
homothety (noun) mapping (noun)
(mathematics) an isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point. (genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome
the process of making maps
(mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)
Difference between homothety and mapping

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