The study of the patterns of inflection of words or word classes in any given language; the study of the patterns in which morphemes combine to form words, and the rules for combination; morphemics; as, the morphology of Spanish verbs; also, the inflection patterns themselves.
the size and shape of sperm.
The physical structure of an organ...
River/ESTUARY/lake/seabed form and its change with time.
The physical characteristics, structure, or form of an organism. Examples include how long the tail is, are they fat or skinny, do they have overlapping scales, do they have big or little scales.
the components, called morphemes, that make up words
Morphology is the science of the structure of animals and plants.
A branch of biology that deals with the physical form and structure of plants and animals. A study of the forms, relations, metamorphoses, and phylogenetic development of organs apart from their functions.
Form and structure of the plant
The shape and size of the particles making up the object; direct relation between these structures and materials properties (ductility, strength, reactivity...etc.).
the study of form; e.g. a plant's external characteristics and their variations.
Form and structure of organisms, like plants and animals; their structural appearance.
The component of grammar that builds words out of pieces (morphemes).
the branch of linguistics that examines parts of words and how they can (or can’t) combine to form other words. If you studied morphology, you might invent words like awesomeicity or dudeitude and analyze why your friends would understand those words easily, while other invented words like dis-awesome or dude-hood may have less success.
The structure and form of an organism.
the study of shapes and those methods used to transform or describe shapes of objects
The shape or form of a structure on the surface of the Earth.
The science which deals with the form and structure of animals and plants.
This is a class of processing operations that change the shape of bodies. For each voxel under consideration, the neighbouring value will influence the result. This neighbourhood is also called the structuring element, which can be modified in order to adjust the result of the morphology operation. There are four main operations: • Erode: This removes a layer of pixels/voxels from the surface of a body. It is like peeling a layer from an onion and is used to contract objects or to separate them. • Dilate: This adds a layer of pixels/voxels to the surface of a body. It is used to expand objects or to fuse them. These are usually applied together, so the size of an object does not change significantly. • Open: erode followed by dilate. Breaks apart and smoothes objects. • Close: dilate followed by erode. Fills in holes and joins objects.
the study of structure, including the system by which speech units are combined to form meaningful words.
The (outward) physical structure of a plant (e.g., characteristics of the root system, branch attachment, foliage).
The branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of cells.
The branch of grammar that studies the internal structure of words. ( Crystal, 1987)
Study of form in an organism, but also refers to the overall shapes of an organism and products of its behavior, i.e., track morphology and egg morphology.
The study of form and structure. The morphology of an apple would include a description of its skin, stem, core, seeds, fruit, and how they are arranged as a whole.
Morphology is the study of how words are formed from morphemes, those bits of sound that have meaning. Question: Here is a question I've put under morphology since it is loosely related to "word formation." "Gasp" is a word, while the the sharp intake of breath that we make when startled is not considered a word. Yet, that sharp-intake-of-breath sound is readily recognized to mean "I'm startled!" Why is the sharp-intake-of-breath sound not considered a word? Is it because the sound is usually made in direct response to a stimulus, so that it is more like an animal's vocalization? Does the command to make the sound originate in a different part of our brain than words do? If this sound is not considered a word because it is only a direct visceral response to a stimulus, what about those times when someone makes the sound deliberately to indicate they are surprised or frightened? (My husband accuses me of doing that whenever we drive.) If the sound is used deliberately by a large number of people does it evolve into a word? What do you think
Term used to describe form and structure.
A study of the configuration the structure of animals and plants.
The branch of grammar which studies the structure and form of words in a language.
The biological study of the form and structure of a living organism.
The study of biological structures without consideration for their function.
the study of meaning units (i.e., morphemes) in words. Return to the top
n. (G. morphologie, fr. Gr. morph - (fr. morphe, form) + G. -logie, -logy, more at form) a branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of animals and plants, a study of the forms, relationships, metamorphoses, and phylogenetic development of organs apart from their functions.
"The use of grammatical markers that indicate number, tense, case, person, active or passive voice, and other meanings" (Berk, 2003 p.355).
the science of form and structure without regard to function.
The science of organic forms and structures.
The study of the use of prefixes, suffixes, and compounding to form words.
The scientific study of form, and of the structures and development that influence form; term used in most sciences.
the branch of grammar which studies the structure or forms of words. The main branches are inflectional morphology, derivational morphology, and compounding.
The appearance and structure of an organism or cell. Cells may be described by their morphology or their biochemistry. (adjective: morphological).
Study and description of wordformation in a language, including formation by adding inflections and other suffixes and prefixes and by compounding; the system of word-forming elements and processes in a language.
The study of how the aspects of language structure are related to the ways words are formed from prefixes, roots, and suffixes (e.g., mis-spell-ing), and how words are related to each other.
studies of the rules for forming admissible words
the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
(mor·phol·o·gy) linguistics - study of word formation: the study of the structure of words in a language
Greek morphos = form, and logos = word or relation; hence, study of pattern of structure; adjective - morphological.
That science that deals with the form of the Earth, the general configuration of its surface, and the changes that take place due to erosion and deposition.
The study of word structure.
The structure of an organism, usually referring to the level of organization observable with the unaided eye, a hand lens, or a dissecting microscope
(app. anatomy) The study of insect structure and function.
The physical structure of an organism. The visible characteristics of a species—the phenotype. The 'tree' is a morphology into which various species of plants have developed.
The branch of grammar concerned with the form of words, including word formation and inflection.
The study of morphemes, or the smallest meaningful units of language.
the study of shapes in landscapes
Specialized form of massage with essential oils that targets the digestive areas.
A neighborhood process which produces a result for each neighborhood in an image by comparing it with a structuring element and applying a morphological rule. For example, erosion, dilation, pattern matching. This can be done for binary or gray-scale images.
The shape of a waveform or portion thereof.
Morphology is the shape of the sperm. The morphology is considered normal if at least 30 percent of the sperm have an ideal shape. Some labs use the Kruger scoring system, which is stricter, so that a sample would be called normal if only 14 percent of sperm cells had ideal shapes.
the shape of a cell, such as elongated or rounded.
shape or form, or the study of them
The branch of linguistics which studies how words change their forms when they change grammatical function, ie their inflections swim -swam - swum - swimming - swimmer; cat - cats; mouse - mice; happy - happier - happily etc. See also Syntax.
The study of form; used in linguistics (the study of morphemes and word construction) and for form in general-for example, biomorphology relates to physical form.
the physical form and structure of animal and plants.
The study of form and structure of animals and plants and their fossil remains.
An examination of the morphemic structure of words; an appreciation of the fact that words with common roots share common meanings, and that affixes change words in predictable and consistent ways.
Most often used to describe the shape of sperm but can also be used to describe the appearance of the cells within an embryo.
The study of shape or form. See geomorphology.
A branch of grammar which studies the structure of words
The science of form or structure.
Term meaning shape. When sperm is diagnosed as having poor morphology, it means the sperm is misshapen and often incapable of fertilization. close window
the aspect of language that concerns derivations of word forms and use of grammatical markers or inflections
The study of how sound sequences convey meaning.
the study of the form and shape of animals and plants.
The rules governing meanings of word units.
The branch of biology that studies the structure and form of tissue.
Study of shape, configuration or form (Gr. morphe form, logos discourse).
The scientific study of form and structure, especially in biology and geology.
Inflectional morphology is a grammatical process by which Inflections of Tense {-s}, {-ed} as well Case/Agreement is born of a functional node (node = tree branch) and delivered onto a lexical stem--hence changing the form of a word. Only form (lexical) words can take inflection. Derivational morphology is a grammatical process by which a class of word may change its meaning or part of speech--e.g., from noun to adjective as child childish, or from a verb to a noun as in teach teacher (where the bound morpheme {-er} means a person who performs the act of the verb). Inflectional morphology is more akin to abstract functional grammar (Chomsky's rule-driven nature) whereas Derivational morphology may be more akin to lexical learning (Skinner's association nature).
The physical shape/appearance of a thing.
the study or description of the structure or forms of words.
The scientific study of organic form, including both its development and its function.
The branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of organisms without consideration of function.
A branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of microorganisms, animals, and plants. Alternately, the external structure of rocks in relation to the development of erosional forms or topographic features.
The physical structure and configuration of sperm cells
Configuration or structure, shape.
The external shape of rocks in relation to the development of erosional forms or topo-graphic features.
Branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of animals and plants. It includes anatomy, histology and organography, and also the nonphysiological aspects of cytology and embryology.
The study of the form of animals - usually external and often contrasted with anatomy, the study of the internal form.
Attributed to Hippocrates, this specialized form of massage targets specific digestive areas; massage is done in combination with essential oils; this massage therapy requires specialized training and may be barred from practice in some states. The therapy is used to improve digestion and eliminate waste from the colon tract.
Cellular shape, dimensions, and spacial arrangement.
The science of forms and structures of organisms; the form and structure of a particular organism, organ, or part.
The study of the forms of things.
The science of the form and structure of organisms (plants, animals, and other forms of life).
Form and size of organisms or parts of organisms
The law of form or structure independent of function. 126
Examines word parts. The study and description of word formation including inflection, derivation, and compounding, syllables, prefixes, suffixes, root words.
Morphology is the study of the form and structure of organisms, especially their external form.
The shape and structure of an organ or of an entire organism.
study of the physical structure of s.t.
the study of form, such as assessing the shape of sperm during semen analysis
The form and structure of an animal.
The study of meaningful units of language and how they are combined to form words.
Image algebra group of mathematical operations based on manipulation and recognition of shapes. Also called mathematical morphology. Operations may be performed on either binary or gray scale images.
The study of form and structure, at any level or organization.
the study of physical features (shape). In paleoanthropology it is the study of the surfaces of bones.
the study of physical features (shape). In paleontology it is mostly the study of bones and teeth since this is what is most likely to be preserved by fossilization.
The study of the form, shape, and structure of organisms.
Mathematics of shape analysis. An algebra whose variables and shapes and whose operations transform those shapes.
The study of structures in living things. [To return to previous page, click your browser's BACK button then scroll through the page to your last location
The scientific study of form, and of the structures and development that influence form. In geology, the external structure, form, and arrangement of rocks in relation to the development of landforms.
The scientific study of the form and structure of living organisms; or the form and structure itself.
The study of the shape and structure of galaxies.
Morphology is the form or structure of an individual skin lesion.
n. The form and structure of anything, usually applied to the shapes, parts, and arrangement of features in living and fossil organisms.
Grammatical and other variants of words that are derived from the same root or stem.
The shape of sperm as studied in a semen analysis.
The form and structure of a surface. In tins, the morphology of a surface is defined by the sample points and breakline features used to build the tin. Breaklines, when properly located at locations of significant change in surface behavior, play a major role in defining surface morphology. In lattices, the morphology of a surface cannot be directly represented by sample points and linear features; it must be implied from the mesh point z values.
The physical shape_appearance of a thing.
Morphology is the study of the external structure of organisms (for example, the arrangement of leaves on a plant).
How sounds and words are put together to form meaning. A "morpheme" is the smallest unit of language that has meaning.
Rules of how to combine the smallest meaningful units of language to form words.
The study of the internal structure of words.
The term morphology in biology refers to the outward appearance (shape, structure, colour, pattern) of an organism or taxon and its component parts.
Morphology, broadly, is the study of form or structure. Folkloristic morphology, then, is the study of the structure of folklore and fairy tales.