glide reflection
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A transformation consisting of a reflection followed by a translation along the same line.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Thus every function of the form eⁱᵃz + c is the composition of a translation with a reflection and so it is a glide reflection."
- "That turns out to have one small spaceship, moving diagonally up and left at c/14 with period 14 (glide reflection at generation 7):"
- "Footprints along a line have glide reflection symmetry."