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skeuomorph|ˈskjuːəʊmɔːf|
[f. Gr. σκεῦος vessel, implement + µορϕή form.]
1. An ornament or ornamental design on an artefact resulting from the nature of the material used or the method of working it.
1889H. Colley March in Trans. Lancs. & Cheshire Antiq. Soc. VII. 166 The forms of ornament demonstrably due to structure require a name. If those taken from animals are called zoomorphs, and those from plants phyllomorphs, it will be convenient to call those derived from structure, skeuomorphs. 1979Nature 6 Dec. 632/2 So-called ‘skeuomorphs’ in architecture that involve conversion of originally necessary features into purely decorative patterns.
2. An object or feature copying the design of a similar artefact in another material.
1938Proc. Prehistoric Soc. IV. 82 This necklace type is best known in jet from northern Britain, where it has..provided the type of which the gold lunula is a skeuomorph. 1943Antiquity XVII. 7 Stone skeuomorphs of wooden fences. 1977[see skeuomorphic a. below]. 1981Chartered Mechanical Engineer Sept. 20/3 ‘Skeuomorphs’ seem to be very common in motor car design, particularly where changes are made from ferrous metals to non-ferrous metals or plastics.
Hence skeuoˈmorphic a., of, pertaining to, decorated with, or having the character of a skeuomorph or skeuomorphs.
1889H. Colley March in Trans. Lancs. & Cheshire Antiq. Soc. VII. 168 The transfer of thong-work from the flint axe, where it was functional, to the bronze celt, where it was skeuomorphic. 1895A. C. Haddon Evol. Art 6 The reader is referred to the section on skeuomorphic pottery. 1905[see anthropomorphic a. 2]. 1928R. A. S. Macalister Archaeol. Ireland vi. 277 Celtic interlacement..is skeuomorphic; that is, it is derived from the patterns produced by a technical process—in this case, by weaving. 1930J. L. Myres Who were Greeks? viii. 464 When a potter, working in red clay..fashions clay vessels so that..they resemble metal work or leather work or basketry..his style is ‘skeuomorphic’. 1951B. Z. Seligman N. & Q. Anthropol. (ed. 6) iii. 311 Note whether the design is..skeuomorphic. 1959J. D. Evans Malta iii. 127 The skeuomorphic carving of some of the inner halls of the rock-cut monument of Hal Saflieni. 1977T. Shaw Unearthing Igbo-Ukwu 15 When something is originally made in one material and is then translated into another, but by its form and decoration reveals the original model which it imitates, this is called a ‘skeuomorph’, and the object in the new material is said to be ‘skeuomorphic’. Thus the bronze pot described is skeuomorphic of an ordinary pottery vessel. |