Polymorphism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Biology The occurrence of different forms, stages, or types in individual organisms or in organisms of the same species, independent of sexual variations.
  • n. Chemistry Crystallization of a compound in at least two distinct forms. Also called pleomorphism.
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  • n. The ability to assume different forms or shapes.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The feature of object-oriented programming pertaining to the dynamic treatment of data elements based on their type, allowing for an instance of a method to have several definitions.
  • n. 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 least one such typed variable.
  • n. The ability of a solid material to exist in more than one form or crystal structure; pleomorphism.
  • n. The regular existence of two or more different genotypes within a given species or population; also, variability of amino acid sequences within a gene's protein.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as pleomorphism.
  • n.
  • n. The capability of assuming different forms; the capability of widely varying in form.
  • n. Existence in many forms; 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The property of being polymorphous, or capable of existing in different forms; specifically, in crystallography, the property of crystallizing in two or more fundamental forms: thus, carbon crystallizes in isometric forms in the diamond, and in hexagonal forms in graphite.
  • n. In zoology, difference of form, structure, or type; existence in, or exhibition by, a group of animals, as a species, genus, family, or order, of different types of structure; heterogeneousness.
  • n. In botany, the comprisal of numerous definite or indefinite subtypes under a given type.
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  • n. (chemistry) the existence of different kinds of crystal of the same chemical compound
  • n. (genetics) the genetic variation within a population that natural selection can operate on
  • n. (biology) the existence of two or more forms of individuals within the same animal species (independent of sex differences)
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    dimorphism    riflip    RFLP   
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    pleomorphism   
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