Morphology
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Morphology may mean:
- Morphology (linguistics)Morphology (linguistics)In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis and description, in a language, of the structure of morphemes and other linguistic units, such as words, affixes, parts of speech, intonation/stress, or implied context...
, the study of the structure and content of word forms - Morphology (biology)Morphology (biology)In biology, morphology is a branch of bioscience dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features....
, the study of the form or shape of an organism or part thereof - Morphology (molecular), study of how the shape and form of molecules affect their chemical properties, dynamic reconfiguration and interactions
- Morphology (astronomy), the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, or other extended objects
- Morphology (folkloristics)Morphology (folkloristics)Morphology, broadly, is the study of form or structure. Folkloristic morphology, then, is the study of the structure of folklore and fairy tales....
, the structure of narratives such as folk tales - GeomorphologyGeomorphologyGeomorphology is the scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them...
, the study of landforms - Mathematical morphologyMathematical morphologyMathematical morphology is a theory and technique for the analysis and processing of geometrical structures, based on set theory, lattice theory, topology, and random functions...
, a theoretical model based on lattice theory, used for digital image processing - River morphologyRiver morphologyThe terms river morphology and its synonym fluvial geomorphology are used to describe the shapes of river channels and how they change over time...
, the field of science dealing with changes of river planform - Urban morphologyUrban morphologyUrban morphology is the study of the form of human settlements and the process of their formation and transformation. The study seeks to understand the spatial structure and character of a metropolitan area, city, town or village by examining the patterns of its component parts and the process of...
, the study of growth and development of functions in cities - Morphological analysis (disambiguation)
- Morphology (materials science), the study of shape, size, texture and phase distribution of physical objects.
- Morphology (ideology), the study of the conceptual structure of ideologies, and the rules defining the admissibility of meanings into concepts.
- Morphology (journal),