ISOMETRY

isometry

(noun) equality of measure (e.g., equality of height above sea level or equality of loudness etc.)

isometry

(noun) equality of elevation above sea level

isometry

(noun) a one-to-one mapping of one metric space into another metric space that preserves the distances between each pair of points; “the isometries of the cube”

isometry

(noun) the growth rates in different parts of a growing organism are the same

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

isometry (plural isometries)

(mathematics) A function between metric spaces (or on a single metric space) having the property that the distance between two images is equal to the distance between their preimages.

• Isometry is to metric spaces what isomorphism is to groups.