similarity
English
Etymology
From French similarité.
Morphologically similar + -ity
Pronunciation
Noun
similarity (countable and uncountable, plural similarities)
- Closeness of appearance to something else.
- (philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.
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- Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all.
- (mathematics) A transformation that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
- (mathematics, linear algebra) The property of two matrices being similar.
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Category English terms derived from the Proto-Semitic root *similarity- not found
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closeness of appearance
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