homothety

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From Ancient Greek ὁμο- (homo-, “same”) + θέσις (thésis, “setting, placement, arrangement”).

homothety (plural homotheties)

(mathematics, geometry) An isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point.
- 1927, Henry George Forder, The Foundations of Euclidean Geometry‎^[1], page 178:
  The product of two homotheties with the same centre is a homothety with that centre.
- 1972, Clayton W. Dodge, Euclidean Geometry and Transformations, published 2004, page 106:
  One cannot obtain all similarity mappings from products of homotheties alone, but they are necessary and basic to similarities.
- 2011, Agustí Reventós Tarrida, Affine Maps, Euclidean Motions and Quadrics, Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series, page 69:
  Since homotheties are determined by the fixed point, called the center of the homothety, and by the similitude ratio λ, we shall denote by h_P,λ the homothety with center P and similitude ratio λ.
(commutative algebra, Bourbakist) A homomorphism from a module $M$ over a ring $A$ to itself of the form $\nu :x\mapsto ax$ for some fixed $a\in A$ (especially when $M=A$ ; $a$ is said to be the ratio of the homothety, by analogy with the geometric case).

(isotropic scaling transformation with a fixed point): homothecy, homogeneous dilation, homothetic transformation

scaling transformation