similarity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French similarité.
Morphologically similar + -ity
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Noun[edit]
similarity (countable and uncountable, plural similarities)
- Closeness of appearance to something else.
- (philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.
- 1859–1860, William Hamilton, H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
- 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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closeness of appearance
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