Geometry and Spatial Sense: Similarity


© Janice L. Flake 1998-2000

Similarlity: Two objects, pictures, or drawings are similar if there exists a sequence of transformations involving translations/slides, rotations/turns, reflections/flips, and/or dilations/scaling/enlargements-reductions that transform the first object, picture, or drawing to the second.

| Symmetry | Reflection/Flip | Translation/Slide | Rotation/Turn | TanTrans | Congruency | Dilation/Scaling | Similarity | Tesselations | Perpendicularity | Parallelism |

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