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- [pol-ee-mawr-fiz-uh m]
- /ˌpɒl iˈmɔr fɪz əm/
- /ˌpɑː.li.ˈmɔː.ˌfɪ.zəm/
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- [pol-ee-mawr-fiz-uh m]
- /ˌpɒl iˈmɔr fɪz əm/
Definitions of polymorphism word
- noun polymorphism the state or condition of being polymorphous. 1
- noun polymorphism Crystallography. crystallization into two or more chemically identical but crystallographically distinct forms. 1
- noun polymorphism Biology. the existence of an organism in several form or color varieties. 1
- noun polymorphism Genetics. the presence of two or more distinct phenotypes in a population due to the expression of different alleles of a given gene, as human blood groups O, A, B, and AB. 1
- noun Technical meaning of polymorphism (theory, programming) The ability to leave parts of a type in a typed language unspecified. The term has three distinct uses: * Parametric polymorphism refers to the use of type variables in a strongly typed language. * Overloading, sometimes called ad-hoc polymorphism, means using the same syntax for different types. * object-orientated polymorphism allows a variable to refer to objects whose class is not known at compile time. 1
- noun polymorphism the occurrence of more than one form of individual in a single species within an interbreeding population 0
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Origin of polymorphism
First appearance:
before 1830 One of the 36% newest English words
First recorded in 1830-40; polymorph + -ism
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Parts of speech for Polymorphism
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polymorphism popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 73% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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