homomorphism Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun similarity of form
    homomorphy.

WordNet

Ho`mo*mor"phism noun
Etymology
See Homomorphous.
Definitions
  1. (Biol.) Same as Homomorphy.
  2. (Bot.) The possession, in one species of plants, of only one kind of flowers; -- opposed to heteromorphism, dimorphism, and trimorphism.
  3. (Zoöl.) The possession of but one kind of larvæ or young, as in most insects. 4. (Math) A special type of mapping of one mathematical set into or onto another set . . .

Webster 1913