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similarity

noun
/ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/UK/ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/CA/ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/

Etymology

From French similarité. Morphologically similar + -ity

  1. derived from similis
  2. derived from similaris
  3. derived from similaire
  4. suffixed as similarity — “similar + ity”

Definitions

  1. Closeness of appearance to something else.

  2. The relation of sharing properties.

    • Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all.

  3. A transformation (of a Euclidean space) that preserves angles and the ratios of distances

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The property of two matrices being similar.

The neighborhood

Derived

antisimilarity, autosimilarity, biosimilarity, bisimilarity, dissimilarity, haplosimilarity, nonsimilarity, self-similarity

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at similarity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at similarity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at similarity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA