The symmetry that a figure has if it can be made to fit exactly onto the original when it is translated a given distance at a given direction and then reflected over a line. As in translational symmetry, glide-reflectional symmetry exists only for infinite patterns.
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Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: literature (Noun). The body of all written works. literature (Noun). The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture. literature (Noun). All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject. literature (Noun).