conformal

adjective

  1. 1

    That conforms, especially to the shape of something.

  2. 2

    (of a transformation) That preserves angles between intersecting curves.

  3. 3

    (of a map projection) That preserves relative angles over small scales, at all but a limited number of distinct points.

    On conformal map projections, the scale depends on location only and not direction.

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