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morphology

[mawr-fol-uh-jee] / mɔrˈfɒl ə dʒi /






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"Our study shows that advanced correlative methods can reveal changes in this hidden organization that are not apparent from morphology alone."

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

Also, these issues are not confined to one make or model but to the morphology.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

“Axon morphology in living animals is under constant and dynamic change,” says neuroscientist Tong Wang from ShanghaiTech University, who has studied beading in diseased neurons.

From Science Magazine Dec. 2, 2024

After careful evaluation of the extensive data, the results are now available: they provide detailed information on changes in the morphology and structure of the material, but also on chemical processes during discharge.

From Science Daily Nov. 19, 2024

Barley has the further advantage that its genetics and morphology permit it to evolve quickly the useful changes in seed dispersal and germination inhibition that we discussed in the preceding chapter.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

In a paper published January 2025, Reichgelt and collaborator Christopher West compared the shapes of fossil leaves of the Miocene gathered and analyzed in many previous studies with a dataset of modern leaf morphologies.

From Salon Feb. 17, 2025

As the researchers report in the journal Physical Review X, their results show that hexagonal morphologies -- in other words, six-sided structures -- such as molecules with six binding sites are ideal for self-assembly.

From Science Daily Apr. 4, 2024

We can select and generate target morphologies by design.

From Scientific American May 31, 2023

Once you start introducing these little chemical factories — that's what a bacterium is, a tiny, little chemical factory — there's only three morphologies.

From Salon Dec. 19, 2022

From this it follows that broadly similar morphologies must have been reached by unrelated languages, independently and frequently.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir




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