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amorphousUnorganized or vague. A lack of structure. For example, the amorphous state of a bit on a rewritable optical disc means that the light from a laser beam will scatter and not be as reflective as a highly structured crystalline bit. Contrast with crystalline. See amorphous silicon, amorphous semiconductor, phase change disc and phase change memory. amorphous (of chemicals, rocks, etc.) not having a crystalline structure amorphous [ə′mȯr·fəs] (physics) Pertaining to a solid which is noncrystalline, having neither definite form nor structure. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Nina too seeks a cause, and locates it
rather amorphously in "everybody" and "everything":
"Nina blamed us, this family. That strange moment
of reconciliation cannot be accomplished amorphously but belongs to the
offer of concrete, disciplined, stylized immediacy. "
"Nordic" culture is amorphously represented as homogenous
(306), "dull" (307), and implicitly incapable of providing the
black artist with anything useful--a notion, I will presently show, he
dispenses with in the 1930s. |
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