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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. (genetics) the genetic variation within a population that natural selection can operate on;

2. (chemistry) the existence of different kinds of crystal of the same chemical compound;
[syn: polymorphism, pleomorphism]

3. (biology) the existence of two or more forms of individuals within the same animal species (independent of sex differences);


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Polymorphism \Pol`y*mor"phism\, n. 1. (Crystallog.) Same as Pleomorphism. [1913 Webster] 2. (Biol.) (a) The capability of assuming different forms; the capability of widely varying in form. (b) Existence in many forms; the coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

polymorphism n 1: (genetics) the genetic variation within a population that natural selection can operate on 2: (chemistry) the existence of different kinds of crystal of the same chemical compound [syn: polymorphism, pleomorphism] 3: (biology) the existence of two or more forms of individuals within the same animal species (independent of sex differences)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

polymorphism polymorphic The ability to leave parts of a type in a typed language unspecified. The term has three distinct uses: * Parametric polymorphism refers to the use of type variables in a strongly typed language. * Overloading, sometimes called ad-hoc polymorphism, means using the same syntax for different types. * object-oriented polymorphism allows a variable to refer to objects whose class is not known at compile time. (2014-01-05)