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  2. Motion (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    This group of motions is noted for its properties. For example, the Euclidean group is noted for the normal subgroup of translations. In the plane, a direct Euclidean motion is either a translation or a rotation, while in space every direct Euclidean motion may be expressed as a screw displacement according to Chasles' theorem.

  3. Rigid transformation - Wikipedia

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    (A reflection would not preserve handedness; for instance, it would transform a left hand into a right hand.) To avoid ambiguity, a transformation that preserves handedness is known as a rigid motion, a Euclidean motion, or a proper rigid transformation. In dimension two, a rigid motion is either a translation or a rotation.

  4. Rigidity (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a rigid collection C of mathematical objects (for instance sets or functions) is one in which every c ∈ C is uniquely determined by less information about c than one would expect. The above statement does not define a mathematical property ; instead, it describes in what sense the adjective "rigid" is typically used in ...

  5. Affine transformation - Wikipedia

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    Let X be an affine space over a field k, and V be its associated vector space. An affine transformation is a bijection f from X onto itself that is an affine map; this means that a linear map g from V to V is well defined by the equation () = (); here, as usual, the subtraction of two points denotes the free vector from the second point to the first one, and "well-defined" means that ...

  6. Euclidean group - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a Euclidean group is the group of (Euclidean) isometries of a Euclidean space; that is, the transformations of that space that preserve the Euclidean distance between any two points (also called Euclidean transformations).

  7. Kinematics - Wikipedia

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    Kinematics is a subfield of physics and mathematics, developed in classical mechanics, that describes the motion of points, bodies (objects), and systems of bodies (groups of objects) without considering the forces that cause them to move.

  8. Geometric rigidity - Wikipedia

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    In other words, a rigid framework (,) of a GCS has no nearby framework of the GCS that is reachable via a non-trivial continuous motion of (,) that preserves the constraints of the GCS. Structural rigidity is another theory of rigidity that concerns generic frameworks , i.e., frameworks whose rigidity properties are representative of all ...

  9. Isometry - Wikipedia

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    Translation T is a direct isometry: a rigid motion. [1] In mathematics, an isometry (or congruence, or congruent transformation) is a distance-preserving transformation between metric spaces, usually assumed to be bijective. [a] The word isometry is derived from the Ancient Greek: ἴσος isos meaning "equal", and μέτρον metron meaning ...