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• similar — adjective Etymology: French similaire, from Latin similis like, similar more at same Date: 1611 1. having characteristics in common ; strictly comparable 2. alike in substance or essentials ; corresponding < no two animal habitats are exactly… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• similar — adjective 1 almost the same but not exactly the same: We have similar tastes in music. | students of roughly similar abilities | These two signatures are so similar it s very difficult to tell them apart. | I saw something similar in yesterday s… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• similar — similarly, adv. /sim euh leuhr/, adj. 1. having a likeness or resemblance, esp. in a general way: two similar houses. 2. Geom. (of figures) having the same shape; having corresponding sides proportional and corresponding angles equal: similar… …   Universalium

• similar — sim•i•lar [[t]ˈsɪm ə lər[/t]] adj. 1) having a likeness or resemblance, esp. in a general way; having qualities in common: two similar houses[/ex] 2) math. (of geometric figures) having the same shape; having corresponding sides proportional and… …   From formal English to slang

• similar — 1. adjective /ˈsɪmələ,ˈsɪməlɚ/ a) Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable. b) Of geometrical figures including triangles, squares, ellipses, arcs and more complex figures, having the same shape but possibly different size,… …   Wiktionary

• Marching triangles — In computer graphics, marching triangles is a technique for reconstructing two dimensional surface geometry from an unstructured point cloud. Point clouds are typically generated from 3D laser scanning of real world objects. In the past, accurate …   Wikipedia

• Pythagorean theorem — See also: Pythagorean trigonometric identity The Pythagorean theorem: The sum of the areas of the two squares on the legs (a and b) equals the area of the square on the hypotenuse (c) …   Wikipedia

• Triangle — This article is about the basic geometric shape. For other uses, see Triangle (disambiguation). Isosceles and Acute Triangle redirect here. For the trapezoid, see Isosceles trapezoid. For The Welcome to Paradox episode, see List of Welcome to… …   Wikipedia

• mathematics — /math euh mat iks/, n. 1. (used with a sing. v.) the systematic treatment of magnitude, relationships between figures and forms, and relations between quantities expressed symbolically. 2. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) mathematical procedures,… …   Universalium

• Similarity (geometry) — Geometry = Two geometrical objects are called similar if one is congruent to the result of a uniform scaling (enlarging or shrinking) of the other. One can be obtained from the other by uniformly stretching , possibly with additional rotation,… …   Wikipedia

• Golden ratio — For the Ace of Base album, see The Golden Ratio (album). Not to be confused with Golden number. The golden section is a line segment divided according to the golden ratio: The total length a + b is to the length of the longer segment a as the… …   Wikipedia