a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit
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similarity::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | law of similarity |
| Type of | gestalt law of organization, gestalt principle of organization |
similarity::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | sameness |
| Has types | correspondence, homogeny, homology, homomorphism, homomorphy, alikeness, isomorphy, likeness, parallel, parallelism, similitude, sort, uniformity, uniformness, isomorphism, analog, analogue, approach, approximation |
| Derivation | similar |
Examples of similarity
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One similarity us that all have managed or will manage a Cardinal Hall of Famer.
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Speaking of the ball, that too bore little similarity to its modern incarnation.
From the independent.co.uk
Recent research shows marital satisfaction is related to personality similarity.
From the europe.wsj.com
Scientists refer to this type of pattern as scale invariance or self-similarity.
From the sciencedaily.com
It is a rivalry of similarity and proximity rather than difference and distance.
From the latimes.com
That similarity, and the importance of papayas in studying allergies, coming up.
From the scienceblogs.com
The analogy to Iran never rings truer given the historical strain of similarity.
From the economist.com
Thus Interpersonal attraction and attitude similarity have a direct correlation.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The resulting mark is known as a five-bar gate, from its similarity to the same.
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- The quality of being similar
- A Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit
- Two geometrical objects are called similar if they both have the same shape. More precisely, one is congruent to the result of a uniform scaling (enlarging or shrinking) of the other. ...
- Similarity refers to the psychological nearness or proximity of two mental representations. Research in cognitive psychology has taken a number of approaches to the concept of similarity. Each of them is related to a particular set of assumptions about knowledge representation.
- Closeness of appearance to something else; The relation of sharing properties
- (Similarities) Abstract verbal reasoning (e.g. In what way are an apple and a pear alike?)
- (The similarities) Both provide a representation of a shared understanding of a domain in order to facilitate efficient communication.
- Differentia: Sharing attributes, but with different measurements
- N. a two-place conceptual equivalence predicate, which is independent of the Lisp image so that two objects in different Lisp images can be understood to be equivalent under this predicate. See Section 3.2.4 (Literal Objects in Compiled Files).
