isomorphic

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
The Fock space of a system of indistinguishable particles is isomorphic (in a nonunique way) to the state space of a composite, i.e., many modes, quantum system.

View all »
Definitions (11)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. adjective Biology Having a similar structure or appearance but being of different ancestry.
  2. adjective Related by an isomorphism.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (7)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (48)

  • The iso that catches your eye so quickly is not the lonely start of isolated (which is related to island) but the Greek “equal” we see in isotonic, isomorphic, and those isobars you see on weather maps (the bar from Greek for “pressure,” as in barometer, but no, not bar mitzvah, pressure or no).
  • We describe a duality in the moduli space of string vacua which pairs topologically distinct Calabi-Yau manifolds and shows that the yield isomorphic conformal theories. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Algebra over a field: A ring containing an isomorphic copy of a given field in its centre. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Group isomorphism problem: The decision problem of determining whether two group presentations present isomorphic groups. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • By a general theorem, this group is isomorphic to the first homotopy group. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 87 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/aɪsəˈmɔrfɪk/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

warwick · dresser · initiative · sarcopenia · buckle

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich