isomorphism
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From Ancient Greek ἴσος (isos), “‘equal’”) + μορφή (morphē), “‘shape’”)
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isomorphism (plural isomorphisms)
- (biology) the similarity in form of organisms of different ancestry
- (algebra) A bijection f such that both f and its inverse f −1 are homomorphisms, that is, structure-preserving mappings.
- (chemistry) the similarity in the crystal structures of similar chemical compounds
- (sociology) the similarity in the structure or processes of different organizations
- (computer science) a one-to-one correspondence between all the elements of two sets, e.g. the instances of two classes, or the records in two datasets
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the similarity in form of organisms of different ancestry
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bidirectionally structure-preserving bijection
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