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Webster 1913 Edition
Similar
1.
Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.
2.
Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness.
3.
Homogenous; uniform.
[R.]
Boyle.
Similar figures
(Geom.)
, figures which differ from each other only in magnitude, being made up of the same number of like parts similarly situated.
– Similar rectilineal figures
, such as have their several angles respectively equal, each to each, and their sides about the equal angles proportional.
– Similar solids
, such as are contained by the same number of similar planes, similarly situated, and having like inclination to one another.
Sim′i-lar
,Noun.
That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.
Webster 1828 Edition
Similar
SIM'ILAR
,Adj.
Definition 2024
similar
similar
English
Mathematics: Figures shown in the same color are similar
Adjective
similar (comparative more similar, superlative most similar)
- Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter IV:
- So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
- Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter IV:
- (mathematics) Of geometrical figures including triangles, squares, ellipses, arcs and more complex figures, having the same shape but possibly different size, rotational orientation, and position; in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional; such that one can be had from the other using a sequence of operations of rotation, translation and scaling.
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Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable
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of geometric figures, having the same shape
Noun
similar (plural similars)
- That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.
- (homeopathy) A material that produces an effect that resembles the symptoms of a particular disease
External links
- similar in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- similar in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911