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Shift

Shift
Translation
Glide

A transformation in which a graph or geometric figure is picked up and moved to another location without any change in size or orientation.

Two parabolas: original centered at origin, and same parabola shifted right and down, illustrating a translation shift.

 

Two irregular quadrilaterals showing a translation: "pre-image (original figure)" on left, "image" on right, same size and...

 

See also

Pre-image, image, horizontal shift, vertical shift