scissors congruence

A form of scissor congruence — The property of two polygons that have the property of being decomposable into finitely many polygons that are pairwise congruent.

Meanings

nounscissors congruence (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of scissor congruence.
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