##  [Homothety](/homothety) 

  ##  [Homothety](https://puremath.quantumdictionary.io/homothety-0) 

  

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Definition

A similarity transformation with a center that maps each point to a point on the same ray from the center by multiplying distances from the center by a uniform scale factor k (the dilation factor).