similarity
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English
Etymology
From French similarité.
Morphologically similar + -ity
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/, /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ə.ti/, /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ə.ti/, /ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ti/
Audio (New Mexico): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/, [ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ɾi]
- Rhymes: -æɹɪti
Noun
similarity (countable and uncountable, plural similarities)
- Closeness of appearance to something else.
- (philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.
- 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volumes (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.
- (geometry) A transformation (of a Euclidean space) 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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