ALL meanings of polymorphism
pol·y·mor·phism
P p - 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 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 polymorphism the occurrence of more than one form of individual in a single species within an interbreeding population 0
- noun polymorphism the occurrence of more than one form in the individual polyps of a coelenterate colony 0
- noun polymorphism the existence or formation of different types of crystal of the same chemical compound 0
- noun polymorphism the property of certain substances of crystallizing in two or more different forms or systems 0
- noun polymorphism the condition in which a species has two or more very different morphological forms, as the castes of social insects or the flowers of certain plants 0