different between conformative vs conformal

English

Adjective

conformative (comparative more conformative, superlative most conformative)

1. (nonstandard) Tending to conform; abiding by rules, laws, or social conventions.
   • 1932, Jean Toomer, "As the Eagle Soars", Crisis

     A true individual is not conformative but formative.

2. (nonstandard) Of or pertaining to a conformation.

Quotations

• 1999, Phillip K. Wilson, Surgery, Skin And Syphilis: Daniel Turner's London (1667-1741)

  […] the impressed immaterial ‘species’ from the mother’s imagination became expressed as a result of the imagination’s conformative power.

• 2000, Martha Joynt Kumar (ed.), Lawrence R. Jacobs (ed.), Robert Y. Shapiro, Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the Twenty-first Century

  The immediate prospects for transformational (or conformative) leadership in the presidency do not at present appear auspicious.

• 2004, Paul Spencer, The Samburu: A Study in Geocentracy

  The social structure of the two conformative societies is more clearly defined: individual enterprise and competition are more discernible in the other two.

Italian

Adjective

conformative f

1. feminine plural of conformativo

English

Etymology

conform +? -al.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)m?l

Adjective

conformal (comparative more conformal, superlative most conformal)

1. That conforms, especially to the shape of something.
   • 1993, S. Webb, The Physics of Three Dimensional Radiation Therapy: Conformal Radiotherapy, Radiosurgery and Treatment Planning, IOP Publishing, page 335,

     Some are realizable in practical computational times; others giving ‘more conformal’ 3D dose distributions take longer and some invoke technology which is not readily available, such as intensity-modulated fields.

   • 2007, Angus Rockett, The Materials Science of Semiconductors, Springer, page 573,

     CVD^{[Chemical Vapor Deposition]} is generally more conformal than physical vapor deposition, meaning that it covers a rough surface relatively uniformly, tracking the morphology rather than resulting in thin, low-quality coatings on vertical walls of the substrate, as is the case for physical vapor deposition methods.

   • 2011, Gregory J. Kubicek, Dwight E. Heron, Optimizing Treatment Strategies in Recurrent Head and Neck Strategies, Dwight E. Heron, Roy B. Tishler (editors), Head and Neck Cancer, Demos Medical Publishing, page 256,

     One method for delivering high doses of radiation to a small area is by using more conformal types of radiotherapy.

2. (mathematics, of a transformation) That preserves angles between intersecting curves.
   • 1991 [Elsevier Science], Roland Schinzinger, Patricio A. A. Laura, Conformal Mapping: Methods and Applications, 2003, Dover, page 508,

     This would have been tantamount to a conformal transformation.

   • 1999, Malte Henkel, Conformal Invariance and Critical Phenomena, Springer, page 46,

     Let us find all conformal transformations in d dimensions.

   • 2004, Philip L. Bowers, Kenneth Stephenson, Uniformizing Dessins and Bely? Maps Via Circle Packing, American Mathematical Society, page 77,

     In regions of S where the packings become more deeply embedded in purely hexagonal generations during refinement, the local dilatation approaches 1 and the maps become progressively more conformal.

3. (cartography, of a map projection) That preserves relative angles over small scales, at all but a limited number of distinct points.

Synonyms

• (cartography): anthropomorphic

Antonyms

• (mathematics): disformal

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Further reading

• Conformal map projection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Map projection#Conformal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Transformation (function) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia