Dictionary Definition
morphology
Noun
1 the branch of biology that deals with the
structure of animals and plants
2 studies of the rules for forming admissible
words
3 the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
[syn: sound
structure, syllable
structure, word
structure]
4 the branch of geology that studies the
characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land
forms [syn: geomorphology]
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
- The form and structure of something.
- A description of the form and structure of something.
- A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function.
- The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
- The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
- The study of the internal structure of words.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
the form and structure of something
- Russian: морфология
a description of the form and structure of
something
- Russian: морфология
a scientific study of form and structure
- Russian: морфология
geology
- Russian: морфология
biology
- Russian: морфология
linguistics
- Czech: morfologie, tvarosloví
- Russian: морфология
- ttbc Chinese: 形態學 / 形态学 (xíngtàixué)
- ttbc Dutch: morfologie
- ttbc French: morphologie
- ttbc German: Morphologie , Formenlehre
- ttbc Greek: μορφολογία (morphología)
- ttbc Interlingua: morphologia
- ttbc Italian: morfologia
- ttbc Japanese: 形態学 (けいたいがく, keitaigaku)
- ttbc Korean: 형태학 (hyeong-taehak)
- ttbc Latin: morphologia
- ttbc Lithuanian: sandara (1), morfologija (2,3)
- ttbc Persian: (vazhe-shenasi)
- ttbc Polish: morfologia
- ttbc Portuguese: morfologia
- ttbc Sindhi: (Sarfiaat) (3,3)
- ttbc Slovenian: oblikoslovje
- ttbc Spanish: morfología
Extensive Definition
Morphology may mean:
- Morphology (general), the study of the shape and form of things in general.
- Morphology (linguistics), the study of the structure and content of word forms.
- Morphology (biology) is the study of the form or shape of an organism or part thereof.
- Morphology (astronomy) is the shape of an astronomical object, like nebulae, galaxies, or other extended objects.
- Morphology (folkloristics), the structure of narratives such as folk tales.
- Morphology (architecture), the study of the shape and form of buildings.
- Morphology (metallurgy), the study of the microstructure of metals.
- Geomorphology, the study of landforms.
- Mathematical morphology, theoretical model based on Lattice theory, used for digital image processing. See also, Morphological image processing.
- River morphology, the field of science dealing with changes of river planform.
- Morphological analysis, a general method for non-quantified modelling.
morphology in Bulgarian: Морфология
morphology in Catalan: Morfologia
morphology in Czech: Morfologie
morphology in Welsh: Morffoleg
(gwahaniaethu)
morphology in Danish: Morfologi
morphology in German: Morphologie
morphology in Estonian: Morfoloogia
(täpsustus)
morphology in Spanish: Morfología
morphology in Esperanto: Morfologio
morphology in French: Morphologie
morphology in Galician: Morfoloxía
(homónimos)
morphology in Croatian: Morfologija
morphology in Ido: Morfologio
morphology in Indonesian: Morfologi
morphology in Italian: Morfologia
morphology in Hebrew: מורפולוגיה
morphology in Georgian: მორფოლოგია
morphology in Kurdish: Morfolojî
morphology in Lithuanian: Morfologija
morphology in Macedonian: Морфологија
morphology in Dutch: Morfologie
morphology in Japanese: 形態学
morphology in Norwegian: Morfologi
morphology in Polish: Morfologia
morphology in Portuguese: Morfologia
morphology in Romanian: Morfologie
morphology in Russian: Морфологический
анализ
morphology in Simple English: Morphology
morphology in Slovak: Morfológia
morphology in Swedish: Morfologi
morphology in Thai: สัณฐานวิทยา
(แก้ความกำกวม)
morphology in Vietnamese: Hình thái học
morphology in Turkish: Morfoloji
morphology in Ukrainian: Морфологія
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
IC analysis, accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph, anatomist, anatomy, angiography, angiology, anthropotomy, bound
morpheme, bowwow theory, comparative linguistics, conjugation, cutting, declension, derivation, descriptive
grammar, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, difference of
form, dingdong theory, enclitic, etymology, form, formative, free form,
generative grammar, geomorphology, glossematics, glossology, glottochronology,
glottology, grammar, grammatical analysis,
grammatical theory, grammaticality, graphemics, histologist, histology, historical
linguistics, immediate constituent analysis, infix, infixation, inflection, language study,
lexicology, lexicostatistics,
linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, mathematical
linguistics, morph,
morpheme, morphemic
analysis, morphemics,
morphologist,
morphophonemics,
myography, myology, organography, organology, osteography, osteology, paleography, paradigm, parsing, philology, phonetics, phonology, phrase-structure
grammar, prefix, prefixation, proclitic, psycholinguistics,
radical, root, rules of language, school
grammar, semantics,
sociolinguistics,
splanchnography,
splanchnology,
stem, stratificational
grammar, structural grammar, structuralism, suffix, suffixation, syntactics, tagmemic
analysis, tectology,
theme, traditional
grammar, transformational grammar, transformational linguistics,
word-formation, zootomy