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Homomorphism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Biology Similarity of external form or appearance but not of structure or origin.

n. Zoology A resemblance in form between the immature and adult stages of an animal.

n. Mathematics A transformation of one set into another that preserves in the second set the operations between the members of the first set.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A structure-preserving map between two algebraic structures, such as groups, rings, or vector spaces.

n. A similar appearance of two unrelated organisms or structures

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Same as homomorphy.

n. The possession, in one species of plants, of only one kind of flowers; -- opposed to heteromorphism, dimorphism, and trimorphism.

n. The possession of but one kind of larvæ or young, as in most insects.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Mimicry or imitation of one thing by another; adaptive or analogical resemblance, without true homological or morphological similarity; superficial likeness without structural affinity or relationship. Also homomorphy.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. similarity of form

Word Usage

"However F also maps functions to homomorphisms, mapping f to its unique extension as a homomorphism, while U maps homomorphisms to functions, namely the homomorphism itself as a function."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

similarity

Variant

homomorphy

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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