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Homotope vs Homotype - What's the difference?

homotope | homotype |

As a verb homotope

is (topology|transitive) to define or demonstrate a homotopy of (one map with another).

As a noun homotype is

(biology) that which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else.

homotope

English

Verb

(homotop)
  • (topology) To define or demonstrate a homotopy of (one map with another).
  • (topology) More loosely, to exhibit a homotopy equivalence between two spaces.

    • Related terms

    * isotope

    homotype

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else.
    • The right arm is the homotype of the right leg.
    One arm is the homotype of the other.
    (Owen)
    (Webster 1913)