Crossword clues for isomorphic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Isomorphic \I`so*mor"phic\, a.
Isomorphous.
(Biol.) Alike in form; exhibiting isomorphism.
Of or pertaining to sets related by an isomorphism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1862, from iso- + Greek morphe (see Morpheus).
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context mathematics English) Related by an isomorphism; having a structure-preserving one-to-one correspondence. 2 (context biology English) Having a similar structure or function to something that is not related genetically or through evolution. 3 Having identical relevant structure; being structure-preserving while undergoing certain invertible transformations.
WordNet
adj. having similar appearance but genetically different [syn: isomorphous]
Usage examples of "isomorphic".
Ironically, changes of superencipherment within a message, intended to provide greater security, furnished the German cryptanalysts with isomorphic repetitions that helped them reconstitute the superencipherment substitution.
This scholarly essay concurs in many essential respects with the thesis that Canadian and other non American Root Cults, in contrast to all but what Phelps and Phelps argue are isolated pockets of antihistorical American stelliformism, persist so queerly in directing their reverent fealty toward principles, quote, "often not only isomorphic with but activally opposed to the cultists' own individual pleasure, comfort, cut bono, or entertainment as to be all but outside the ken of both the sophisticated predictive models of psychosocial science and the rudimentary comprehension of human reason.
But Mappings covering such a short distance were brief and isomorphic: she felt the same coming out of the destination station as entering it (just as, of course, principles of the identity of indiscernible objects predicted she should).