polymorphic — Английский словарь

Прилагательное

1. Relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms.

   Употребление

   • not-comparable

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (2)

   I refer to those genera which have sometimes been called "protean" or "polymorphic," in which the species present an inordinate amount of variation; and hardly two naturalists can agree which forms to rank as species and which as varieties.

   1897, Grant Allen, An African Millionaire Dr. Beddersley came -- a dapper little man, with pent-house eyebrows, and keen, small eyes, whom I suspected at sight of being Colonel Clay himself in another of his clever polymorphic embodiments.

2. Having or relating to the ability to take multiple data types for a single parameter.

   Употребление

   • not-comparable
   • of a function

   Примеры

   Polymorphic redefinition in C++ is achieved by the use of virtual functions.

   Другие примеры (1)

   A polymorphic call looks like a procedural call, but where a procedural call has only one possible target subroutine, a polymorphic call can result in the execution of one of several different subroutines.

3. Relating to a compound that can crystallize into two or more distinct forms (e.g. carbon, which can crystalize into coal, graphite, diamond, etc.)

   Употребление

   • not-comparable

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (1)

   The fact that polymorphic equilibrium is not a dynamic equilibrium is significant with respect to the random distribution of velocity of temperature agitation among the molecules.

4. Being or relating to polymorphic content; developed for multiple formats from the start, instead of being adapted later.

   Употребление

   • not-comparable

Прилагательное

1. relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms

   Синонимы

   polymorphous

   Примеры

   polymorphous crystallization

2. relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population

   Синонимы

   polymorphous

   Примеры

   a polymorphic species

3. having or occurring in several distinct forms

   Синонимы

   polymorphous

   Примеры

   man is both polymorphic and polytypic

   a polymorphous god