Definition of homomorphic in English:
homomorphic
adjective ˌhəʊmə(ʊ)ˈmɔːfɪkˌhɒmə(ʊ)ˈmɔːfɪkˌhoʊməˈmɔrfɪk
technical 1Of the same or similar form.
Example sentencesExamples
- In organisms in which gender is based on one sex being homomorphic and the other heteromorphic for the sex chromosomes, a process has evolved to equalize the output of products encoded by the genes located there.
- Model systems for homomorphic self-incompatibility in flowering plants share these characteristics.
- For quality control data we adopted the same homomorphic pattern by adding a further level of abstraction.
- These terms describe the flower morphology, where homomorphic plants produce identical flowers, and the determination of self-incompatibility or compatibility is predominantly regulated at the genetic level.
- 1.1Mathematics Relating to or of the nature of a homomorphism.
Example sentencesExamples
- Let B be a homomorphic image of A.
- All mathematical models in ecology can be divided into two groups: isomorphic and homomorphic models.
- A possible choice is the use of homomorphic encryption.
- It had a great number of very interesting subgroups, including two more previously unknown simple groups, as well as groups having as homomorphic images almost all the finite sporadic simple groups known at that time.
- Homomorphic mappings of rings into fields are very common in commutative algebra and in its applications.
Derivatives
adverb
technical The server system receives a query, consisting of the query information homomorphically encrypted by the user system.
Example sentencesExamples
- I have, however, a few seedlings of different forms of Primula all homomorphically fertilised - I expect some of these will be in flower shortly, and afford us some more information on this point.
- Two graphs are homomorphically equivalent if each admits a homomorphism to the other.
noun
technical
Definition of homomorphic in US English:
homomorphic
adjectiveˌhōməˈmôrfikˌhoʊməˈmɔrfɪk
technical 1Of the same or similar form.
Example sentencesExamples
- Model systems for homomorphic self-incompatibility in flowering plants share these characteristics.
- In organisms in which gender is based on one sex being homomorphic and the other heteromorphic for the sex chromosomes, a process has evolved to equalize the output of products encoded by the genes located there.
- These terms describe the flower morphology, where homomorphic plants produce identical flowers, and the determination of self-incompatibility or compatibility is predominantly regulated at the genetic level.
- For quality control data we adopted the same homomorphic pattern by adding a further level of abstraction.
- 1.1Mathematics Relating to or of the nature of a homomorphism.
Example sentencesExamples
- Homomorphic mappings of rings into fields are very common in commutative algebra and in its applications.
- A possible choice is the use of homomorphic encryption.
- All mathematical models in ecology can be divided into two groups: isomorphic and homomorphic models.
- It had a great number of very interesting subgroups, including two more previously unknown simple groups, as well as groups having as homomorphic images almost all the finite sporadic simple groups known at that time.
- Let B be a homomorphic image of A.