"glide reflection" meaning in English

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          "text": "Thus every function of the form eⁱᵃz + c is the composition of a translation with a reflection and so it is a glide reflection.",
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          "ref": "1995 November 12, Rich Holmes, “Totalistic spaceships”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)",
          "text": "That turns out to have one small spaceship, moving diagonally up and left at c/14 with period 14 (glide reflection at generation 7):",
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          "ref": "2004, Dorothy Koster Washburn, Donald W. Crowe, Donald Warren Crowe, Symmetry Comes of Age: The Role of Pattern in Culture, University of Washington Press, page 6",
          "text": "Footprints along a line have glide reflection symmetry.",
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        "A transformation consisting of a reflection followed by a translation along the same line."
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        "(geometry) A transformation consisting of a reflection followed by a translation along the same line."
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