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What is an isometry?

What is an isometry? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (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.
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These findings show the importance of the two fundamental features of knee ligament reconstructions: isometry, and graft fixation.
Isometry helps recover amplitudes thanks to constant and non-excessive tension on the graft, from stretching to complete flexing of the knee.
Display of various views, isometry and vanishing point.
In the constructive theory of linear codes, we can restrict attention to the isometry classes of indecomposable codes, as it was shown by Slepian.
This mapping is not an isometry, for the light cones are tilted, which corresponds to anisotropic light propagation.
Thurston also took up ideas about the discrete isometry groups of hyperbolic three-space, first investigated by Henri Poincaré and later studied by Lars Ahlfors.

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