Isomorphic vs Heteromorphic - What's the difference?
isomorphic | heteromorphic |
(mathematics) Related by an isomorphism; having a structure-preserving one-to-one correspondence.
* 2003 , Bernd Siegfried Walter Schröder, page 254
(biology) Having a similar structure or function to something that is not related genetically or through evolution.
* 1993 , Marcus Jacobson, Foundations of Neuroscience , page 106
Having identical relevant structure; being structure-preserving while undergoing certain invertible transformations.
* 1981 , John Lyons, Language and Linguistics: An Introduction , page 60
(biology) Having different forms in different stages of the life cycle
Differing in size or structure from the normal
Heteromorphic is a coordinate term of isomorphic.
In biology terms the difference between isomorphic and heteromorphic
is that isomorphic is having a similar structure or function to something that is not related genetically or through evolution while heteromorphic is having different forms in different stages of the life cycle.As adjectives the difference between isomorphic and heteromorphic
is that isomorphic is related by an isomorphism; having a structure-preserving one-to-one correspondence while heteromorphic is having different forms in different stages of the life cycle.isomorphic
English
Adjective
(-)- Let A, B be the ordered sets in Figure 10.3. Let C be the direct product of infinitely many copies of the two element chain'' 2'''. ''Then AC is '''isomorphic to BC, but A is not isomorphic to B .
- The fact that different structures can be shown to be functionally isomorphic implies that they are analogous, not homologous.
- For example, in so far as written and spoken English are isomorphic (i.e. have the same structure), they are the same language: there is nothing but their structure that they have in common.