Source : WordNet®
isometry
n 1: the growth rates in different parts of a growing organism
are the same
2: a one-to-one mapping of one metric space into another metric
space that preserves the distances between each pair of
points; "the isometries of the cube"
3: equality of elevation above sea level
4: equality of measure (e.g., equality of height above sea
level or equality of loudness etc.)
Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
isometry
A {mapping} of a {metric space} onto another or
onto itself so that the distance between any two points in the
original space is the same as the distance between their
images in the second space. For example, any combination of
rotation and translation is an isometry of the plane.
(1997-12-13)