Usually means: Preserves angles, not necessarily lengths.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. conformal: Merriam-Webster
  2. conformal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. conformal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. conformal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Conformal, conformal: Wordnik
  6. conformal: Wiktionary
  7. conformal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. conformal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. conformal: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. conformal: Dictionary.com
  11. Conformal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. conformal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. conformal: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (conformal)

adjective:  That conforms, especially to the shape of something.
adjective:  (mathematics, of a transformation) That preserves angles between intersecting curves.
adjective:  (cartography, of a map projection) That preserves relative angles over small scales, at all but a limited number of distinct points.

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