scissor congruence

noun

The property of two polygons that have the property of being decomposable into finitely many polygons that are pairwise congruent.

Meanings

nounscissor congruence (uncountable)
  1. uncountablegeometryThe property of two polygons that have the property of being decomposable into finitely many polygons that are pairwise congruent.
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