"homothecy" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1950, Duke Mathematical Journal, Duke University Press, page 76:",
          "text": "Let us determine the center and the ratio of this homothecy.",
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          "ref": "1981, Kenneth Joseph Arrow, Michael D. Intriligator, Handbook of Mathematical Economics, North-Holland, page 1720:",
          "text": "The restriction of B to S_b is a homothecy of scale b.",
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          "ref": "2013, Felipe Cucker, Manifold Mirrors: The Crossing Paths of the Arts and Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, page 161:",
          "text": "Proposition 7.4 Homothecies preserve circles. That is, for any homothecy h and any circle C, h(C) is a circle as well.[…]Were we willing to do the same with homothecies, we would meet an obstruction: the composition of two homothecies is not necessarily a homothecy.",
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