Usually means: Scaling transformation centered at point.
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  1. homothety: Wiktionary
  2. homothety: Dictionary.com
  3. Homothety: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Homothety: Encyclopedia

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  2. Homothety: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. homothety: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (homothety)

noun:  (mathematics, geometry) An isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point.
noun:  (commutative algebra, Bourbakist) A homomorphism from a module M over a ring A to itself of the form ν:x↦ax for some fixed a∈A (especially when M=A; a is said to be the ratio of the homothety, by analogy with the geometric case).

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