morphologic

Concerning form analysis

Morphologic means relating to form or structure.

The word appears most often in scientific contexts—biology, geology, linguistics—where the shape or structural arrangement of something matters: morphologic analysis of cell types, morphologic features of the landscape.

Morphological is the more common variant, with identical meaning.

geometry

form

Shape or document

  • shapeExternal outline of something
  • structureArrangement of interconnected parts
  • contourBounding line of shape

outline · topology · symmetry · configuration · spatial · dimensional · surface · curvature · geodesic · isomorphism

linguistics

morpheme

Smallest meaningful language unit

agglutination · compounding · reduplication · root · stem · prefix · suffix · infix · ablaut · umlaut

biology

tissue

Disposable soft paper

  • organBody's working component
  • cellBasic unit of life
  • structureArrangement of interconnected parts

anatomy · histology · cytology · phenotype · genotype · diversification · speciation · adaptation · phylogeny · variation

Opposites
form vs. function

morphologicfunctional

Able to operate correctly

physiological · behavioral · operational · semantic · pragmatic

linguistic analysis level

morphologicsyntactic

Regarding sentence structure

phonological · semantic · pragmatic · phonetic · lexical

structural vs. dynamic

morphologicdevelopmental

Related to growth stages

dynamic · evolutionary · genetic · diachronic · temporal

Family

morphology, morphological, morphologies, morphologically

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