any of two or more isomeric compounds exhibiting metamerism
metamer in American English
(ˈmɛtəmər)
noun
Chemistry
a compound exhibiting metamerism with another or others
Word origin
< meta- + Gr meros, a part: see merit
metamer in American English
(ˈmetəmər)
noun
Chemistry
a compound exhibiting metamerism with one or more other compounds
Word origin
[1880–85; meta- + -mer]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Chief of Staff, barnstorm, impressionism, pari-mutuel, quotation markmeta- is a prefix appearing in loanwords from Greek, with the meanings “after,” “alongwith,” “beyond,” “among,” “behind,” and productive in English on the Greek model.Other words that use the affix meta- include: metacarpus, metagenesis, metalinguistics
Examples of 'metamer' in a sentence
metamer
Colour constancy needs to be reconsidered in light of the limits imposed by metamer mismatching.
Alexander D. Logvinenko, Brian Funt, Hamidreza Mirzaei, Rumi Tokunaga 2015, 'Rethinking Colour Constancy', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0135029. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Thus, colour constancy refers to a phenomenon, which because of metamer mismatching, simply cannot exist.
Alexander D Logvinenko, Brian Funt, Hamidreza Mirzaei, Rumi Tokunaga 2015, 'Rethinking Colour Constancy.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4565710?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)