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Translation (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, translation is an isometry of Euclidean space which moves every point by a fixed distance in the same direction. It can also be interpreted as the addition of a constant vector to every point, or as shifting the origin of the coordinate system.

See also affine transformation.

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