Amorphic vs Polymorphic - What's the difference?
amorphic | polymorphic |
Having no defined shape, lacking form; amorphous.
(genetics, of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function.
relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms
* 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
* 1897, Grant Allen, An African Millionaire
* 1996 , Rod Ellis, Data abstraction and program design
(programming, of a function) able to take multiple data types
As adjectives the difference between amorphic and polymorphic
is that amorphic is having no defined shape, lacking form; amorphous while polymorphic is relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms.amorphic
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(en adjective)References
* Muller, HJ (1932) Further studies on the nature and causes of gene mutations. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Genetics, pp 213-255.polymorphic
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(-)- I refer to those genera which have sometimes been called "protean" or "polymorphic ," in which the species present an inordinate amount of variation; and hardly two naturalists can agree which forms to rank as species and which as varieties.
- Dr. Beddersley came -- a dapper little man, with pent-house eyebrows, and keen, small eyes, whom I suspected at sight of being Colonel Clay himself in another of his clever polymorphic embodiments.
- Polymorphic redefinition in C++ is achieved by the use of virtual functions.