similar

Definitions

1. Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, allied, comparable.
2. Having the same shape, in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional.
3. Of two square matrices; being such that a conjugation sends one matrix to the other.

Equivalents

Examples

“My new car is quite similar to my old one, except it has a bit more space in the back.”

“So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.”

“Similar studies of rats have⟳ employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release⟳ systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.”

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