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Compression of a Geometric Figure A transformation in which all distances are shortened by a common factor. This is done by contracting all points toward some fixed point P. Note: The common factor is less than 1 for a contraction. When the common factor is greater than 1 the transformation is called a dilation.
See also Dilation of a geometric figure, compression of a graph, pre-image, image
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