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Isometry

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An isometry, also called a congruence or a congruent transformation, is a distance-preserving transformation between two metric spaces, usually assumed to be bijective; the word comes from the ancient Greek isos, meaning equal, and metron, meaning measure. When the transformation maps a metric space to itself, it is a particular kind of geometric transformation known as a motion. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Entity-backed identity for the object-kind enum value this mathematical object already carries, resolved to a mathematics concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The object-kind fact itself stays on the object unchanged.

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1. Isometry (Wikipedia)
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