opposition vs similarity

opposition

noun
  • An opposite or contrasting position. 

  • The difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate. 

  • A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power. 

  • In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent. 

  • The action of opposing or of being in conflict. 

  • The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth. 

  • A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king. 

similarity

noun
  • Closeness of appearance to something else. 

  • A transformation that preserves angles and the ratios of distances 

  • The property of two matrices being similar. 

  • The relation of sharing properties. 

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