HOMOGRAPHY

Etymology

Noun

homography (countable and uncountable, plural homographies)

The state or quality of being spelt homographically; the state or quality of existing as homographs.

(geometry) An isomorphism between projective spaces that maps straight lines to straight lines.

Synonyms: projectivity, projective transformation, projective collineation

Hypernym: collineation

Hyponyms: linear fractional transformation, Möbius transformation

Source: Wiktionary


Ho*mog"ra*phy, n.

1. That method of spelling in which every sound is represented by a single character, which indicates that sound and no other.

2. (Geom.)

Definition: A relation between two figures, such that to any point of the one corresponds one and but one point in the other, and vise versa. Thus, a tangent line rolling on a circle cuts two fixed tangents of the circle in two sets of points that are homographic.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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