different between price vs homothetic

English

Alternative forms

• prize (obsolete) [16th–19th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?s
• (UK, US): enPR: pr?s, IPA^(key): /p?a?s/
• (Canadian raising): IPA^(key): /p???s/

Noun

price (plural prices)

1. The cost required to gain possession of something.
2. The cost of an action or deed.

3. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Proverbs xxxi. 10

     Her price is far above rubies.

   • new treasures still, of countless price

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Descendants

• ? Irish: praghas

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Verb

price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple past and past participle priced)

1. (transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
4. (transitive, colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.

   to price eggs

Derived terms

• budget-priced

Translations

Further reading

• price in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• price in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Cripe, recip.

Latin

Noun

price

1. ablative singular of prex

English

Adjective

homothetic (not comparable)

1. (mathematics, geometry) for a geometric figure that is the image of another figure under an homothety.
2. (mathematics) of a function of two or more variables in which the ratio of the partial derivatives depends only on the ratio of the variables, not their value
3. (economics) in which the ratio of goods demanded depends only on the ratio of their prices
4. the relationship of a microcosm to a macrocosm

Usage notes

According to the extension of Wu wei theory, ordering the Chinese Emperor's palace is governing the country well: the palace is an homothetic reproduction of the country.

Related terms

• homotheticity

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