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What's The Definition Of Similar?
[adj] resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination; "suits of like design"; "a limited circle of like minds"; "members of the cat family have like dispositions"; "as like as two peas in a pod"; "doglike devotion"; "a dreamlike quality"
[adj] having the same or similar characteristics; "all politicians are alike"; "they looked utterly alike"; "friends are generaly alike in background and taste" [adj] capable of replacing or changing places with something else; "interchangeable parts" [adj] marked by correspondence or resemblance; "similar food at similar prices"; "problems similar to mine"; "they wore similar coats" [adj] (of words) expressing closely related meanings Synonyms | Synonyms for Similar: akin(p) | alike(p) | analogous | confusable | connatural | correspondent | corresponding | exchangeable | interchangeable | kindred | like | like-minded | look-alike | quasi(a) | related | replaceable | siamese | standardised | standardized | suchlike | synonymous | twin Related Terms | Find terms related to Similar: See Also | same Similar In Webster's Dictionary \Sim"i*lar\, a. [F. similaire, fr. L. similis like,
similar. See {Same}, a., and cf. {Simulate}.]
1. Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects;
precisely like.
2. Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects;
somewhat like; having a general likeness.
3. Homogenous; uniform. [R.] --Boyle.
{Similar figures} (Geom.), figures which differ from each
other only in magnitude, being made up of the same number
of like parts similarly situated.
{Similar rectilineal figures}, such as have their several
angles respectively equal, each to each, and their sides
about the equal angles proportional.
{Similar solids}, such as are contained by the same number of
similar planes, similarly situated, and having like
inclination to one another.
\Sim"i*lar\, n. That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc. |
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