Homothecy

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(mathematics) an isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point.; "Successive applications of homotheties with coefficients k1 and k2 is either a homothety with coefficient k1k2, if the latter differs from 1, or a parallel translation, otherwise."
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