metamerism

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As this internal articulation or metamerism is mainly found in the vertebral column and the surrounding muscles, the sections or metamera were formerly called pro-vertebrae.

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  1. noun The condition of having the body divided into metameres, exhibited in most animals only in the early embryonic stages of development.

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  • The printer's matte black, photo black and gray inks reduce metamerism and provide high-density blacks and truly neutral monochrome prints. —  Creative COW News
  • He held that metamerism was merely a special manifestation of the general property of repetition, common to all living things (_cf. —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • As this internal articulation or metamerism is mainly found in the vertebral column and the surrounding muscles, the sections or metamera were formerly called pro-vertebrae. —  The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
  • Zeits. _, xxxviii., pp. 1-373, 1904 (which see for a modern account of theories of metamerism). —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • This is why we believe that our approach will dramatically change the way photographers evaluate digital cameras. †dxomark. com provides inâ€depth measurements of all the relevant characteristics of a sensor: actual ISO sensitivity (which generally differs from the value reported by the camera), SNR, dynamic range, tonal range, color depth and sensitivity, metamerism, etc. —  Photography Blog - News
 

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/ˈmɛtəmərɪzm/
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