Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Achsenspiegelung
English translation:
reflection about an axis
Sep 26, 2004 14:14
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German term
Achsenspiegelung
German to English
Science
Mathematics & Statistics
Geometry
Erzeugung von Parallelverschiebung und Drehung aus Achsenspiegelung
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reflection about an axis
It means basically this: the image of each point is the same distance from the axis as the point itself, but in the opposite direction. This is what we normally call reflection in plane (2-D) geometry. In three dimensions, it corresponds to a rotation of half a turn (180 degrees, pi radians) about the axis.
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