amorphous

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"Everything Happens Twice" is less amorphous, the power-walk stride generated by the rhythm section facing off against Miller's church-organ jabs for a good four minutes -- until the focus switches over to sputtering-engine guitar and emphatic-if-gravelly chants.

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  1. adjective Lacking definite form; shapeless. See Synonyms at shapeless.
  2. adjective Of no particular type; anomalous.
  3. adjective Lacking organization; formless.
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  • Better prayer and scripture study-kind of amorphous, isn't it? —  MamaBlogga
  • "When amorphous, the shape of the spectrum is different compared to that of calcite and we've also been able to analyze the exact same spicule 10 months later and saw the spicule that were amorphous became crystalline," said Pupa Gilbert, physics professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead researcher of the study. —  Daily Californian Headlines
  • The solid is represented by an amorphous, thermally rough ensemble of particles. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • His music, his vocals, his appearance and basically his whole persona occupy the amorphous area between feminine and masculine.
  • I would also then invest in lithium-ion (storage) batteries, wind for off grid use, silicon based solar, both crystalline and amorphous, and uranium and thorium based nuclear electric power generation. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
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  1. From Greek amorphos : a-, without; see a-1 + morphē, shape.

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  1. from New Latin amorphus, from Greek ᾱμορφος, without form, shapeless, misshapen, from ἀ-privative + μορφή, shape, form.
 

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