Morph

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search
Look up morph in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Morph is from the Greek morphe meaning shape or form. For example, the word metamorphosis means a change in shape or form. Common uses of the term include:

Fiction
Biology
  • Morph (zoology), a visual or behavioural difference between organisms of distinct populations in a species
  • Muller's morphs, a classification scheme for genetic mutations
Technology
Other uses
  • Morph, in linguistics, the vocal form of a morpheme
  • Morphism, an abstraction of a structure-preserving mapping between two mathematical structures
  • Morphing, in motion pictures and animations, a special effect that changes (morphs) one image into another through a seamless transition

[edit] See also

Personal tools