An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Geometry: Having the same shape; representing the same figure drawn to different scales (same corresponding angles and proportional sides).
   

2. Math.: Related by means of a → similarity transformation.

Etymology (EN): From Fr. similaire, from L. similis “like,” → simulate.

Etymology (PE): Hamânand, contraction of hammânand, from ham-, → com-, + mânand “resembling, like,” → simulate.