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May 24, 2022 at 9:35 vote accept M. Winter
May 24, 2022 at 2:49 history edited Robert Furber CC BY-SA 4.0
Grammar. In English a name is considered a property, not a manner of doing something, so uses "what", not "how". "How do you call" can only refer to the other meanings of call that are not about naming (e.g. summoning, visiting, calling on the telephone etc.)
May 24, 2022 at 1:52 history became hot network question
May 23, 2022 at 22:32 comment added Federico Poloni In Italian I've heard the word "roto-omotetia" to denote the composition of a rotation and a homotethy (mostly in Euclidean affine geometry though). "Roto-homothety" returns a few results in English, too (and apparently not from Italian authors).
May 23, 2022 at 19:37 comment added Ben McKay linear conformal ...............
May 23, 2022 at 19:16 answer added Vladimir Dotsenko timeline score: 4
May 23, 2022 at 18:53 answer added paul garrett timeline score: 3
May 23, 2022 at 18:05 comment added Deane Yang I think "conformal" is the most commonly used term, and it's made clear that only linear transformations are being considered.
May 23, 2022 at 17:54 comment added Michael Renardy Similarity transformation comes close.
May 23, 2022 at 17:50 history edited M. Winter CC BY-SA 4.0
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May 23, 2022 at 17:39 comment added M. Winter Please let me know if this should be CommunityWiki or is even too opinion based for that!
May 23, 2022 at 17:38 history asked M. Winter CC BY-SA 4.0