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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1 Renaissance literature is the product of a culture devoted to rhetoric, or the art of verbal persuasion and argument.  Certain syntactic forms or patterns of words known as figures (or schemes), usually identified by their Greek or Latin names, were used to heighten the expressive power of English.