Adjective
That conforms, especially to the shape of something.
(mathematics, of a transformation) That preserves angles between intersecting curves.
(cartography, of a map projection) That preserves relative angles over small scales, at all but a limited number of distinct points.
On conformal map projections, the scale depends on location only and not direction.
The conformal invariance of the Yang-Mills equations in four dimensions greatly facilitates the study of the temporal asymptotic behavior of their solutions. John C. Baez
A large group of conformal maps for relating solutions of Maxwell’s equations was identified by Ebenezer Cunningham (1908) and Harry Bateman (1910) (see spherical wave transformation ). Source: Internet
A further conformal transformation from the sphere to the plane gives a conformal double projection from the ellipsoid to the plane. Source: Internet
Algorithms Computational conformal mapping is prominently featured in problems of applied analysis and mathematical physics, as well as in engineering disciplines, such as image processing. Source: Internet
Alternative angles A conformal map is called that because it preserves the shapes of things (at an infinitesimal scale). Source: Internet
As a corollary of the theorem, any two simply connected open subsets of the Riemann sphere which both lack at least two points of the sphere can be conformally mapped into each other (because conformal equivalence is an equivalence relation). Source: Internet