Homotope vs Homotype - What's the difference?
homotope | homotype |
(topology) To define or demonstrate a homotopy of (one map with another).
(topology) More loosely, to exhibit a homotopy equivalence between two spaces.
(biology) That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else.
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
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Verb
(homotop)homotype
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Noun
(en noun)- The right arm is the homotype of the right leg.
- One arm is the homotype of the other.
- (Owen)