different between mesomorphic vs meromorphic

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?z??m??f?k/, /?m?s??m??f?k/

• Rhymes: -??(r)f?k

Etymology 1

From mesomorph +? -ic.

Adjective

mesomorphic (comparative more mesomorphic, superlative most mesomorphic)

1. Of or pertaining to a mesomorph.
   • 1993, Henry B. Biller, Fathers and Families: Paternal Factors in Child Development, page 155,

     For instance, compared to the typical ectomorphic or endomorphic child, the mesomorphic boy or girl may have more energy and a greater motivation for vigorous play with peers.

   • 2005, Bruce Abernethy, The Biophysical Foundations of Human Movement, page 37,

     An average man is more mesomorphic than the phantom whereas the average woman is more endomorphic than the phantom (see figure 3.2).

   • 2009, Timothy R. Ackland, Bruce Elliott, John Bloomfield, Applied Anatomy and Biomechanics in Sport, page 62,

     Players in the best teams were less endomorphic and more mesomorphic than those in the worst teams, but forwards and backs in the best teams did not differ in somatotype.

Etymology 2

From meso- +? -morphic.

Adjective

mesomorphic (not comparable)

1. (chemistry, physics) Of or pertaining to phases of matter intermediate between solid and liquid; of or pertaining to liquid crystals.
   • 1958, Chemical Society (Great Britain), G. W. Gray, Steric Effects in Conjugated Systems, page 161,

     Changes in the chemical constitution of a mesomorphic compound may therefore radically alter the mesomorphic properties and thermal stabilities.

   • 1993, Nikola? Al?fredovich Plat? (editor, original Russian edition), S. L. Schnur (translator), Liquid-Crystal Polymers, page 132,

     This x-ray is typical of mesomorphic structures which occupy an intermediate position between crystalline and amorphous with respect to the degree of order.

   • 2007, Gert R. Strobl, The Physics of Polymers: Concepts for Understanding Their Structures and Behavior, page 200,

     The thermodynamic conditions under which such a mesomorphic phase can interfere and affect the crystallization process are described in Fig. 5.40.

Anagrams

• homospermic

English

Etymology

mero- +? -morphic

Adjective

meromorphic (not comparable)

1. (complex analysis, of a function) That is the ratio of two holomorphic functions (and so possibly infinite at a discrete set of points).
   • 1993, Joel L. Schiff, Normal Families, Springer, page 71,

     Normal families of meromorphic functions are most naturally studied using the spherical metric (§1.2), an approach initiated by Ostrowski [1926]. Some results for meromorphic functions, such as the FNT, are immediate extensions from the analytic case, whereas others, such as Landau's or Julia's theorem are set in a much broader context than their analytic counterparts. Normality criteria pertinent to families of meromorphic functions, such as Marty's theorem, have not yet been encountered.

   • 2000, Werner Balser, Formal Power Series and Linear Systems of Meromorphic Ordinary Differential Equations, Springer, page 39,

     Note that such a transformation is holomorphic at the origin, but is essentially singular at infinity. However, since ${\displaystyle T(z)}$ commutes with ${\displaystyle A(z)}$, the transformed system has coefficient matrix ${\displaystyle A(z)-zq'(z)I}$ and hence is again meromorphic at infinity.

   • 2012, Marius van der Put, Michael F. Singer, Galois Theory of Linear Differential Equations, Springer, page 147,

     A point ${\displaystyle p\in P^{1}}$ is singular for ${\displaystyle \textstyle {\frac {d}{dz}}-A}$ if the equation cannot be made regular at ${\displaystyle p}$ with a local meromorphic transformation.

Derived terms

Related terms

• holomorphic
• meromorphism