The process for dialating a figure by drawing<span> parallel segments. ratio ... a number that describes by how much </span>you<span> have </span>reduced<span> or </span>enlarged<span> a map, ... if </span>you can<span> rotate and/or flip one of them so that </span>you can<span>dilate it onto the other; two figures are similar if one is congruent to a dilation of the other. splits two sides </span>proportinally<span>.</span>