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ALL meanings of allomorph

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  • noun allomorph any of the phonological representations of a single morpheme. For example, the final (s) and (z) sounds of bets and beds are allomorphs of the English noun-plural morpheme 3
  • noun allomorph any of two or more different crystalline forms of a chemical compound, such as a mineral 3
  • noun allomorph any of the crystalline forms of a substance existing in more than one such form 3
  • noun allomorph paramorph 3
  • noun allomorph any of the variant forms of a morpheme as conditioned by position or adjoining sounds 3
  • noun allomorph any of two or more different forms of the same chemical compound. 1
  • noun allomorph Linguistics. one of the alternate contextually determined phonological shapes of a morpheme, as en in oxen, which is an allomorph of the English plural morpheme. Compare morph. 1
  • noun allomorph (chemistry) Any of the different crystalline forms of a substance. 1
  • noun allomorph Mineralogy. paramorph. 1
  • noun allomorph (linguistics) Any of the different phonological representations of a morpheme. 0
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