similitude

The Reynolds law of dynamic similarity or Reynolds similitude, states that if two fluids flow around similar structures with different length scales, they are hydrodynamically identical provided they exhibit the same Reynolds number.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024

“Everyone says that we have a similitude with Guardiola’s teams and especially when he was the coach of Barça,” Bonmatí said.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

“The similitude across such an immense scale is astonishing,” Dr. Galison said.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2022

I have a lot of similitude with the younger Celine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2022

They may, in all probability, find some similitude between themselves, their Popes, and other bishops, to those illustrious characters, Carragantua, Pantagruel, Trippet, and others so conspicuously alluded to in the works of Rabalais.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan

But plenty of writers can conjure exciting similitudes.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016

For I have with wondering eyes beheld a thousand forms and similitudes, of which I am not able to write.

From Time Magazine Archive

First of all write thou my mandates and similitudes; and the rest, as I will show thee, so shalt thou write.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

By pursuing the analogies of nature, the human mind reduces to order the vagaries of the imagination, and bodies them forth in forms of loveliness and in similitudes of heaven.

From Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. by W. H. (William Henry) Rhodes

We could show similitudes between this wedding and some others in civilized lands, but it is much too serious a matter to be cynical about.

From The Rulers of the Mediterranean by Richard Harding Davis