Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Homologous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characterized by homology; having a structural affinity: distinguished from
analogical , and opposed to adaptive. Seehomology . - In geometry, being in homology or plane perspective, as two figures in one plane.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to homology; having a structural affinity proceeding from, or base upon, that kind of relation termed
homology .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology Having a similar
evolutionary origin ;homologous . - adjective mathematics Having to do with
homology . - adjective grammar Of an
adjective ,describing itself.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective similar in evolutionary origin but not in function
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Examples
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Besides this, Heidegger includes all sciences into a homogenic and homological group, the totality of science, which seems to be, not only a coarse judgment, but also simply a totally blind and incompetent misjudgment.
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Besides this, Heidegger includes all sciences into a homogenic and homological group, the totality of science, which seems to be, not only a coarse judgment, but also simply a totally blind and incompetent misjudgment.
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Besides this, Heidegger includes all sciences into a homogenic and homological group, the totality of science, which seems to be, not only a coarse judgment, but also simply a totally blind and incompetent misjudgment.
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Besides this, Heidegger includes all sciences into a homogenic and homological group, the totality of science, which seems to be, not only a coarse judgment, but also simply a totally blind and incompetent misjudgment.
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My only point was that, no matter what your version of quantum BRST, you are using homological techniques to isolate an invariant piece of some non-trivial representation, and understanding how this works out requires working with non-trivial representations.
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These books allowed new generations of mathematicians to learn algebraic topology and homological algebra directly in the categorical language, and to master the method of diagrams.
Category Theory Marquis, Jean-Pierre 2007
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One could therefore immediately see how the methods of, e.g., homological algebra could be applied to, for instance, algebraic geometry.
Category Theory Marquis, Jean-Pierre 2007
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Indeed, a zoölogist, accustomed to trace a like structure under variously modified animal forms, cannot but have his homological studies recalled to his mind by the coincidence between certain physical features in the northern and southern parts of the
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Its ossification from a separate centre in mammals has therefore a homological significance.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Owen pointed out that it was necessary to distinguish between centres of ossification which were teleological in import and such as were purely indicative of homological relationships.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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