cryptomorphic

形容词 adj.

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形容词 adj.
  1. Two objects, especially systems of axioms or semantics for them, are called cryptomorphic if they are equivalent (possibly in some informal sense) but not obviously equivalent. not-comparable
    — Find them, and prove that an operation satisfying them provides another cryptomorphic version of topology 8.
  2. Having a form that obscures or masks the underlying meaning or purpose. not-comparable
    — Some degree of light may perhaps be thrown on the cryptomorphic condition of bodies in combination, by our knowledge of the typical conditions of natural bodies generally, when uncombined.
  3. Having a cryptic structure in which the ultimate active product is carried by the precursorial protein rather than the protein actually encoded by the gene. not-comparable
    — Three types of genes, namely, immunoglobulin genes, dimorphic genes and cryptomorphic genes, are classified as complex genes.
  4. Found or occurring below the soil layer. not-comparable
    — Either the cryptomorphic silica replaced the microcrystalline dolomite, followed by mineralization or the reverse, in the order of silicification, is possible.
  5. Composed of minerals that are not expressed in their crystalline form. not-comparable
    — Both have 'cryptomorphic' types which are similar in composition but in which no felspar has crystallized.

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Coined by Garrett Birkhoff before 1967, for use in the third edition of his book Lattice Theory.
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