Usually means: Scaling while preserving shape, proportion.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. homothetic: Wiktionary
  2. homothetic: Infoplease Dictionary
  3. homothetic: Dictionary.com
  4. Homothetic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. homothetic: Merriam-Webster
  6. homothetic: Wordnik

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. homothetic: Glossary of research economics
  2. Homothetic: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Homothetic: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Homothetic: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. homothetic: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (homothetic)

adjective:  (mathematics, geometry) for a geometric figure that is the image of another figure under an homothety.
adjective:  (mathematics) of a function of two or more variables in which the ratio of the partial derivatives depends only on the ratio of the variables, not their value
adjective:  (economics) in which the ratio of goods demanded depends only on the ratio of their prices
adjective:  the relationship of a microcosm to a macrocosm

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