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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An allomorph.
  2. n. One of various distinct forms of an organism or species.
  3. v. To transform (an image) by computer: cinematic special effects that morphed the villain into a snake.
  4. v. To be transformed: "Yesterday's filmstrip has morphed into today's school computer” ( Clifford Stoll).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. An abbreviation of morphology, morphological, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. v. colloquial, transitive, intransitive To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
  2. v. colloquial To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.
  3. n. linguistics A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence sounds.
  4. n. linguistics An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
  5. n. biology Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour.
  6. n. A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Linguistics) A sequence of phonemes, often a word fragment, which constitutes the minimum unit of meaning or syntax within a given word. A morph may be one of several variants of a morpheme, depending for its individal form on the context in which it occurs. Thus the morphs -s and -es are variants of the morpheme by which the plural form of English noun is expressed.
  2. v. To transform smoothly in imperceptible steps from one image to another, on a computer screen.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. cause to change shape in a computer animation
  2. v. change shape as via computer animation

Etymologies

  1. Back-formation from morpheme. (Wiktionary)
  2. From morpheme.From Greek morphē, form, shape.Shortening of metamorphose. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • john Then an Army microbiologist from Fort Detrick made an unexpected discovery. Using an old-fashioned microbiological technique, he spread out some attack spores on a bed of nutrient and let each form its own colony. All the colonies looked identical except one, which, to his trained eye, seemed very slightly different. Different-looking colonies are called morphotypes or just “morphs.�?

    The New York Times, A Trained Eye Finally Solved the Anthrax Puzzle, by Nicholas Wade, August 20, 2008 Aug 21, 2008

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