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S vs Polymorphic - What's the difference?

s | polymorphic |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective polymorphic is

relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    polymorphic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms
  • * 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
    • 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.
  • * 1897, Grant Allen, An African Millionaire
    • 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.
  • * 1996 , Rod Ellis, Data abstraction and program design
    • Polymorphic redefinition in C++ is achieved by the use of virtual functions.
  • (programming, of a function) able to take multiple data types

    • Antonyms

    * monomorphic