What does homothecy mean?

homothecy

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Let us determine the center and the ratio of this homothecy."
"The restriction of B to S_b is a homothecy of scale b."
"Proposition 7.4 Homothecies preserve circles. That is, for any homothecy h and any circle C, h(C) is a circle as well.[…]Were we willing to do the same with homothecies, we would meet an obstruction: the composition of two homothecies is not necessarily a homothecy."

homothecies (plural)

homogeneous dilation homothety

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