isomorphism

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Better understanding the source and potential implications of this isomorphism is my focus here.

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  1. noun Biology Similarity in form, as in organisms of different ancestry.
  2. noun Mathematics A one-to-one correspondence between the elements of two sets such that the result of an operation on elements of one set corresponds to the result of the analogous operation on their images in the other set.
  3. noun A close similarity in the crystalline structure of two or more substances of similar chemical composition.

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  • The scope of isomorphism: Turning adults into children. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Better understanding the source and potential implications of this isomorphism is my focus here. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Any time I design a class intended to model a phenomenon in the problem domain, I introduce an isomorphism, and thereby bestow meaning to my program. —  Blogbot - forsiden
  • This is an example the sociologist John Meyer and his collaborators would call global "institutional isomorphism," a tendency of political, economic, and cultural institutions around the world to assume a uniform style of formal organization (based on Western templates). —  ADF Alliance Alert
  • So, up to isomorphism, there is really no difference between a concrete Boolean algebra and an abstract one. —  What's new
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