Look up: Similarity

1. similarity
   [n] - the quality of being similar
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2. similarity
   the quality or state of being similar: resemblance, conformity....--en taxinomie, stats, biostatistique. Mesure de ressemblance entre 2 éléments. Category: Medicine • the property of being similar. Category: Mathematics
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3. Similarity
   Sim`i·lar'i·ty noun ; plural -ties . [ Confer French similarité .] The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features. « Hardly is there a similarity detected between t...
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4. similarity
   law of similarity noun a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit
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5. similarity
   noun the quality of being similar
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6. Similarity
   • (n.) The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features.
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7. similarity
   (from the article `mathematics`) ...is, a theory that does not require any restriction to commensurable magnitudes. This general theory derives from Eudoxus. On the basis of the ... As indicated above, congruent figures have the same shape and size. Similar figures, on the other hand, have the same shape but may differ in size. ... [...
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8. similarity
   (from the article `perception`) ...vertical distance between elements is less than the horizontal distance. By virtue of this differential proximity, the elements become ... ...of association by contiguity states that the sensation or idea of a particular object tends to evoke the idea of something that has often been ... The method ...
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9. similarity
   (from the article `Eckhart, Meister`) 2. Similarity: Man thus detached from the singular (individual things) and attached to the universal (Being) discovers himself to be an image of God. ...
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10. Similarity
    (geometry) Two geometrical objects are called `similar` if they both have the same shape. More precisely, either one is congruent to the result of a uniform scaling (enlarging or shrinking) of the other. This means that either object can be rescaled and repositioned so as to coincide precisel...
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11. Similarity
    (psychology) Cognitive psychological approaches to similarity: `Similarity` refers to the psychological nearness or proximity of two mental representations. Research in cognitive psychology has taken a number of approaches to the concept of similarity. Each of them is related to a particular ...
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