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morphology
Found in thesaurus: biology, biological science, grammar, structure, geophysics, geophysical science
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morphology
n.
study of form and structure; science which deals with structure and form of plants and animals (Biology); study of the form and structure of word formation (Linguistics)
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Morphology
Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may mean:
- Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts
- Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, or other extended objects
- Morphology (biology), the study of the form or shape of an organism or part thereof
- Morphology (folkloristics), the structure of narratives such as folk tales
- Morphology (linguistics), the study of the structure and content of word forms
- Mathematical morphology, a theoretical model based on lattice theory, used for digital image processing
- River morphology, the field of science dealing with changes of river platform
- Urban morphology, study of the form, structure, formation and transformation of human settlements
- Geomorphology, the study of landforms
- Morphological analysis (disambiguation)
- Morphology (materials science), the study of shape, size, texture and phase distribution of physical objects.
- Morphology (Architecture and Engineering), research which is based on theories of two-dimensional and three-dimensional symmetries, and then uses these geometries for planning buildings and structures.
- Morphology (social), study of the form and structure of society
- Morphology (ideology), the study of the conceptual structure of ideologies, and the rules defining the admissibility of meanings into concepts.
- Morphology (journal),
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morphology
Noun
1. the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
(hypernym) biology, biological science
(hyponym) anatomy, general anatomy
2. studies of the rules for forming admissible words
(hypernym) grammar
(hyponym) inflectional morphology, accidence
3. the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
(synonym) sound structure, syllable structure, word structure
(hypernym) structure
(hyponym) affixation
4. the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
(synonym) geomorphology
(hypernym) geophysics, geophysical science
(hyponym) tectonics, plate tectonics, plate tectonic theory
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morphology
n.
morfologie
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morphology
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