Morph
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Astronomy
- Morphs collaborationMorphs collaborationThe Morphs collaboration was a coordinated study to determine the morphologies of galaxies in distant clusters and to investigate the evolution of galaxies as a function of environment and epoch...
, a collaboration that studied the evolution of spiral galaxies using the Magellan and the Hubble Space Telescope
Biology
- Morph (zoology), a visual or behavioral difference between organisms of distinct populations in a species
- Muller's morphsMuller's morphs1946 Nobel Prize winner Hermann J. Muller coined the terms amorph, hypomorph, hypermorph, antimorph and neomorph to classify mutations based on their behaviour in various genetic situations. These classifications are still widely used in Drosophila genetics to describe mutations...
, a classification scheme for genetic mutations
Computing
- MorphingMorphingMorphing is a special effect in motion pictures and animations that changes one image into another through a seamless transition. Most often it is used to depict one person turning into another through technological means or as part of a fantasy or surreal sequence. Traditionally such a depiction...
, in motion pictures and animations, a special effect that changes one image into another through a seamless transition - Morph target animationMorph target animationMorph target animation, per-vertex animation, shape interpolation, or blend shapes is a method of 3D computer animation used together with techniques such as skeletal animation. In a morph target animation, a "deformed" version of a mesh is stored as a series of vertex positions...
, a method of animating computer generated imagery - Morphic (software)Morphic (software)The name "Morphic" was taken from the Greek word "morph", its morphs taking on the role of "forms", the basic graphical building blocks in earlier Self systems and in Smalltalk MVC....
, user interface built out of graphical objects known as morphs - MorphXTMorphXTeMule MorphXT is a peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows released under the GNU General Public License , as is its parent software eMule.eMule connects to both the eDonkey network and the Kad network...
, a peer-to-peer file sharing application
Fiction
- Morph (comics), an X-Men character of Marvel comics
- Morph (character)Morph (character)Morph is an animated Plasticine stop-motion character that appeared with the late Tony Hart, beginning in 1977, on several of his UK TV programmes, notably Take Hart and Hartbeat.-Details:...
, an animated plasticine character that appeared with Tony Hart
See also
- MorphemeMorphemeIn linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest semantically meaningful unit in a language. The field of study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology. A morpheme is not identical to a word, and the principal difference between the two is that a morpheme may or may not stand alone, whereas a word,...
, the smallest component of a word, or other linguistic unit, that has semantic meaning - MorphismMorphismIn mathematics, a morphism is an abstraction derived from structure-preserving mappings between two mathematical structures. The notion of morphism recurs in much of contemporary mathematics...
, between two mathematical structures - Morphology (disambiguation)
- Polymorphism (disambiguation)