English Explanatory Dictionary

affine transformation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A geometric transformation that preserves lines and parallelism, but in general not lengths or angles; (more formally) an automorphism of an affine space: a mapping of an affine space onto itself that preserves both the dimension of any affine subspace and the ratio of the lengths of any pair of parallel line segments.

Word forms

affine transformation affine transformations

Synonyms

affinity

Derived words

affine transformation matrix
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