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morphologyIn biology, the study of the size, shape, and structure of organisms in relation to some principle or generalization. Whereas anatomy describes the structure of organisms, morphology explains the shapes and arrangement of parts of organisms in terms of such general principles as evolutionary relations, function, and development. morphologyIn linguistics, the internal construction system of words and its study. Languages vary widely in the number of morphemes a word can have. English has many words with multiple morphemes (e.g., replacement is composed of re-, place, and -ment). Many American Indian languages have a highly complex morphology; other languages, such as Chinese, have a simple one. Morphology includes the grammatical processes of inflection, marking categories like person, tense, and case (e.g., the -s in jumps marks the third-person singular in the present tense), and derivation, the formation of new words from existing words (e.g., acceptable from accept). morphology the branch of biology concerned with the form and structure of organisms 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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Chaotic advection produces "novel morphologies such as sponge-like blends, over broader compositional ranges than are achievable with conventional compounding equipment," says Zumbrunnen. Fatigue of elastomeric components will be discussed, including an overview and presentations on the role of material morphology (hierarchy of morphologies, initiation of fracture, role of crack tip behavior and causes of crack branching), processing effects on fracture properties (type of polymerization, i. The range of problems addressed includes the time evolution of complex solidification morphologies related to the casting of metals, the behavior of crystalline dislocations under stress, and surface electromigration on metals. |
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