conformal
adjective
con·for·mal
kən-ˈfȯr-məl 
(ˌ)kän-
1
: leaving the size of the angle between corresponding curves unchanged
conformal transformation
2
of a map
: representing small areas in their true shape
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And even if Israel’s F-35I Adir variants do now have conformal fuel tanks, Israel will likely still need tankers for future operations at comparable distances.
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Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Interactions between particles there are governed only by a version of quantum mechanics called conformal field theory, or CFT.
—Lyndie Chiou, Wired News, 20 Apr. 2025
To set up conformal prediction, researchers collect a calibration set containing spectra and their true identities.
—Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025
The party never stops Perhaps all this overwhelming negativity regarding the end of the Universe is what prompted Nobel laureate Roger Penrose in 2010 to propose a completely different mechanism for the long-term fate of the Universe, something dubbed conformal cyclic cosmology, or CCC.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
From the flat perspective, the universe is made up only of particles obeying a quantum theory known as a conformal field theory (that’s the CFT of AdS/CFT).
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Interactions between particles there are governed only by a version of quantum mechanics called conformal field theory, or CFT.
—Lyndie Chiou, Wired News, 20 Apr. 2025
To set up conformal prediction, researchers collect a calibration set containing spectra and their true identities.
—Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025
The party never stops Perhaps all this overwhelming negativity regarding the end of the Universe is what prompted Nobel laureate Roger Penrose in 2010 to propose a completely different mechanism for the long-term fate of the Universe, something dubbed conformal cyclic cosmology, or CCC.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
From the flat perspective, the universe is made up only of particles obeying a quantum theory known as a conformal field theory (that’s the CFT of AdS/CFT).
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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“Conformal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conformal. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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conformal
adjective
con·for·mal
kən-ˈfȯr-məl
(ˈ)kän-
: representing small areas in their true shape
a conformal map
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