Topic 7 Vocabulary

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Vocab for geometry Topic 7

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center of dilation
in a dilation, the fixed point about which the figure is enlarged or reduced
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similarity transformation
a composition of a rigid motion and a dilation
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geometric mean
the number (x) such that a/x = x/b, where a,b, and x are positive numbers
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dilation
a transformation that changes the size of an object, but not the shape
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scale factor
the ratio of the lengths of two corresponding sides of two similar polygons
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similar
figures that have the same shape but not necessarily the same size
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