Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An object, organism, or substance exhibiting isomorphism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A substance which exhibits isomorphism.
- noun In zoology, an organism which has the same form as another, and thus resembles it, though belonging to a different group.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A substance which is similar to another in crystalline form and composition.
- noun (Biol.) An animal, plant, or group having superficial similarity to another, although phylogenetically different.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything that exhibits
isomorphism
Etymologies
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iso- + -morph
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Examples
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(Although, an interesting design isomorph between NOP time delays and genetic regulation here: [paper] [press] [blog])
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A wellconstructed analogy can be more or less isomorph in the studied domain.
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"Patterson methodology", which has been very important in structural inorganic chemistry, and in "isomorph substition".
oroboros commented on the word isomorph
In wordplay, words that repeat letters in the same places: discriminative & simplification repeat letters in the 2nd, 6th, 8th, and 12th positions.
--Chris Cole, Wordplay
May 23, 2008