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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as homomorphous.
  • In entomology, pertaining to or having the characters of the Homomorpha; hemimetabolic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Characterized by homomorphism.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to homomorphism; having a homomorphism.

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Examples

  • Dr. Regina Dugan, director of the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, spoke at D9 on her program's ongoing efforts to reach homomorphic encryption and hypersonic speed, and opened a window into the techiest part of the U.S. Defense Department.

    Defense on the Offense 2011

  • Dr. Regina Dugan, director of the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, spoke at D9 on her program's ongoing efforts to reach homomorphic encryption and hypersonic speed, and opened a window into the techiest part of the U.S. Defense Department.

    Defense on the Offense 2011

  • Given a class C of algebras, we write P (C) for the class of all algebras formed as direct products of families of algebras of C, S (C) for the class of all subalgebras of algebras of C, and H (C) for the class of all homomorphic images of algebras of C.

    Algebra Pratt, Vaughan 2007

  • That is, to construct all the models of the theory of C it suffices to close C first under direct products, then under subalgebras, and finally under homomorphic images; that is, later closures do not compromise earlier ones provided P, S, and H are performed in that order.

    Algebra Pratt, Vaughan 2007

  • A class of L-algebras is a variety if and only if it is closed under subalgebras, direct products and homomorphic images.

    Propositional Consequence Relations and Algebraic Logic Jansana, Ramon 2006

  • L-algebras that includes K and is closed under subalgebras, direct products and homomorphic images.

    Propositional Consequence Relations and Algebraic Logic Jansana, Ramon 2006

  • A suffi - ciently complex model will be homomorphic with

    BIOLOGICAL MODELS R. C. LEWONTIN 1968

  • The rogue, which shared with all intellects the homomorphic trait of considering itself the proper matrix on which all other creatures should be modeled, could not believe that it was its own self which frightened her; no doubt it was its proxy, the sleeth.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • I find in other cases that from a homomorphic union one generally gets solely the parent form.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • I have the promise, but not yet surety, of some curious results with my homomorphic seedling cowslips: these have not followed the rule of

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

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