Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Biology Having a similar structure or appearance but being of different ancestry.
- adj. Related by an isomorphism.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as isomorphous.
- In biology, being of the same or like form; morphologically alike; equiformed.
- In biology:
- Different in ancestry, but alike in appearance; heterophyletic; convergent.
- In group-theory, related, as the group Γ to the group G, so that to every substitution g of G corresponds one substitution γ of Γ, and to the product gg ′ of any two substitutions of G corresponds the product γγ′ of the two corresponding substitutions of Γ.
Wiktionary
- adj. having a similar structure to something that is not related genetically
- adj. related by an isomorphism
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Isomorphous.
- adj. Alike in form; exhibiting isomorphism.
- adj. Of or pertaining to sets related by an isomorphism.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having similar appearance but genetically different
Examples
“Legislation against racist language and behaviour became a model for identifying varieties of harassment and discrimination in the workplace and in the public arena of comment and discussion; pressure has increased for what might be called an 'isomorphic' approach in law to any act or form of words that could be interpreted as stigmatising others or demeaning their human dignity – hence the 'Single Equality' legislation we have seen developed and debated lately.”
Archbishop's lecture - Religious Hatred and Religious Offence
“I also think there's some potential for using the word 'isomorphic' with regards to simulation, but whatever.”
“This is called isomorphic correspondence, and it is "the relationship between the appearance of a visual form and a comparable human behavior" (Luke Wroblewski,”
“Hence, mathematical logic suggests that the application of mathematical physics to the universe as a whole can generate two different types of multiverse: classes of non-isomorphic but elementarily equivalent models; and classes of non-isomorphic and elementarily inequivalent models.”
“In this case, the models of the theory will be mutually non-isomorphic and elementarily inequivalent.”
“Whilst isomorphic models must be elementarily equivalent, there is no need for elementarily equivalent models to be isomorphic.”
“The class of models of a complete theory will be mutually non-isomorphic, but they will nevertheless be elementarily equivalent.”
“(In the case of a complete theory, the models of different cardinality will be elementarily equivalent, even if they are non-isomorphic).”
“Models of different cardinality obviously cannot be isomorphic, hence any theory, complete or incomplete, which has at least one model of infinite cardinality, will have a multiverse associated with.”
“If you group present life by inheritable morphological characteristics, you should get another nested hierarchy that is isomorphic to the NH of descent/speciation/reproductive isolation because, ha ha, inheritable morphological characteristics are INHERITED.”
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Mirrored Vowels
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Adjectival Arcana
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isobar, isomer, isosceles, isogram, isogenics, isotonic, isotype, isomorphic, isodactylous
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