Conformal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Mathematics Designating or specifying a mapping of a surface or region upon another surface so that all angles between intersecting curves remain unchanged.
  • adj. Of or relating to a map projection in which small areas are rendered with true shape.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Describing something that conforms, especially that matches the shape of something.
  • adj. Describing a map projection which has the property of preserving relative angles over small scales (except at a limited number of distinct points). On such map projections the scale depends only location but not direction. Also referred to as orthomorphic.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of the same form.
  • In mathematics, conserving angles or establishing infinitesimal similarity.
  • Word Usage
    "You argue that there are two difficulties with AdS/CFT: that strong forms of it are inconsistent with the bending of light by gravitational fields, and that the evidence supports a weaker relation that you call conformal induction."
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