different between homotope vs homotype

homotope

English

Verb

homotope (third-person singular simple present homotopes, present participle homotoping, simple past and past participle homotoped)

  1. (topology, transitive) To define or demonstrate a homotopy of (one map with another).
  2. (topology, transitive) More loosely, to exhibit a homotopy equivalence between two spaces.

Related terms

  • isotope

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homotype

English

Etymology

homo- +? -type

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?h?m?ta?p/, /?h??m?ta?p/

Noun

homotype (plural homotypes)

  1. (biology) That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else.
    • 1848, Richard Owen, On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton
      humerus is the homotype of femur

References

homotype in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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