polymorphism
Collocations
1VERB + POLYMORPHISM
key
Definitions
noun
The ability to assume different forms or shapes.
The coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents.
A feature pertaining to the dynamic treatment of data elements based on their type, allowing for a method to have several definitions.
The property of certain typed formal systems of allowing for the use of type variables and binders/quantifiers over those type variables; likewise, the property of certain expressions (within such typed formal systems) of making use of at l
The ability of a solid material to exist in more than one form or crystal structure; pleomorphism.
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noun — (chemistry) the existence of different kinds of crystal of t
- pleomorphism
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Idioms & Phrases
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2Since 1990 they have found an entirely new role: they promise understanding of how and why our genes are all so different. They hold the key to human polymorphism.
WiktionarySome polymorphisms can be quite stable – so stable that they span the change from an ancestral to a descendant species.
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