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Homology

noun
1.
The quality of being similar or corresponding in position or value or structure or function.





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"Homology" Quotes from Famous Books



... Professor Fiske, in his Outline of Cosmic Philosophy, made a very interesting remark about societies like those of China, ancient Egypt, and ancient Assyria. "I am expressing," he said, "something more than an analogy, I am describing a real homology so far as concerns the process of development,—when I say that these communities simulated modern European nations, much in the same way that a tree-fern of the carboniferous period simulated the exogenous trees of the present time." So far as this is true of ...
— Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation • Lafcadio Hearn
... cup-like scales at the base of primaries in many insects; specifically in Hymenoptera: in Lepidoptera, the patagia or shoulder tippets; but the homology is disputed; also applied to the lappet-like pieces forming the collar: in Diptera, the alulae, q.v.: the latter use is unfortunate and should be abandoned; the first definition should limit the use of ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith


Words linked to "Homology" :   homologous, homologize, homologic, similarity, homological


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